Re: Mail List

[Doug Welch <welch@physics.mcmaster.ca>]

Chris et al,

I have been using mailman as the mailing list manager for
aavso-discussion and aavso-grb. It works well and the 
web interface is very nice. My major complaint, at least
for the version we are using, is that it won't "munge"
domains. That is, if you sign-up under tom@tass.com,
it won't accept mail automatically from tom@mail.tass.com
or any other sub-domain. The workaround is to add some
additional subscriptions with the different sub-domains
and set all but one of the subscriptions to "no mail".

Cheers,
Doug

On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Chris Albertson wrote:

> 
> I just went through installing "mailman" on a server
> last week.  It was simple.  Took about an hour and that
> included a compile and reading the docs.  It can be
> set up on any server that can send and receive e-mail.
> All you need is a UNIX-like machine and a DSL line.
> One advantage of running our own server is that we
> could make a set of sub-lists, e-mail/news gateways
> and so on.  Admin is via the web so the list admin
> need not be co-located with the server.  I'll even
> contribute a small Sun SPARC server if required.  It
> is an approx 11 inch cube that runs headless. (no CRT
> or K/B.)
>