Many good points have been made, in discussions here on
Majordomo-Users and also on List-Managers lists, and also on netnews
(comp.mail.misc), and bits and pieces have even appeared in published
articles and books. It hasn't all been collected, scrutinized,
verified, summarized, etc., though, not unless that forthcoming
O'Reilly book (Managing Internet Services) will do it?
By "it" I mean the general discussion of generic concepts and
synergistic effects and tie-ins from top down, or bottom up, or both,
in Mailing List Administration, including Internet mail system
administration (mentioning relevant concepts concerning Bitnet, UUCP,
OSI X.400, where necessary), Sendmail, SMail, MMDF, whatever sits
underneath, relevant Unix/VMS/MHS/whatever details below that,
relation to Netnews and FTP (archive fetching), World Wide Web
(proposed URL's for mailing list and list archive service) and the
particular instantiation in software packages like Majordomo,
LISTSERV, ListProc, procmail/formail, whatever.
Something like "Internet Mailing List Administration, from Square One,
including Prerequisite Concepts of Internet Mail and System
Administration and Gatewaying, Relation to Netnews, Computing History,
and Social and Political Psychology" would sell at least a few copies,
maybe? It would also make a good seminar topic, and be a killer
tutorial for Usenix or other conferences, too....
Maybe someday I'll have to take a stab at it :-)
I did post an article about my minimal experience with Majordomo, and
even more minimally with ListProc, to comp.mail.misc a few weeks ago,
I'll see if I can dig up a copy, maybe I should forward it to
List-Managers, where it's maybe more relevant than the specific
Majordomo-Users list?
Chris Koenigsberg: ckk@uchicago.edu, ckoenig@midway.uchicago.edu
U. of Chicago Academic Information Technologies
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