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Subject: Re: integrated delivery system
From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb @ cr . yp . to>
Date: 18 Jun 1998 14:46:32 -0000
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Rich Kulawiec writes:
> a heck of a lot of aliases for sites that operate hundreds of mailing lists.

Depends on your MTA. With qmail, a single .qmail-list-default will catch
all the addresses. The MLM can find the command in $DEFAULT.

This capability is a prerequisite for more powerful features such as
VERPs. See http://pobox.com/~djb/proto/verp.txt.

> I'm not sure I see why this is a win over a single address for
> list administration to which directives are sent.

``Empty message to sos-subscribe@heaven.af.mil'' is simpler than
``message to sos-request@heaven.af.mil with SUBSCRIBE in the Subject.''
It's easier to do by hand, easier to automate, and easier to parse.
Everyone understands that addresses have to be copied exactly.

---Dan
50000 new aliases in 6 seconds. http://pobox.com/~djb/fastforward.html


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