> 1. Setting up a list is the biggest change. How do you start a list
> without "opening it TO THE PUBLIC"?
Easy. Unless you believe that people out there spend all their
time sending mail to every address on the Internet seing if it has
a Majordomo user, asking which lists it manages, etc... simple.
You just don't publicize it. Use a fake name. Whatever. It's
trivial.
> 2. In my posting I referred to a list that was very active and caused
> problems because of the lock file problem. How does anyone, especially
> a novice, test for that before the list is "open TO THE PUBLIC" in such
> a way as to catch a problem caused by heavy activity?
Start a shell script, or open 50 windows, to submit 50 subscribe
and unsubscribe requests at the same time. Forge them with fake
users on your system, if you have to.
> 3. There is no information in the documentation about "dry-running", and
> running a list with just one subscriber is not much of a test.
There's probably no information in your compiler manual about how
to test any application your site writes or installs either. Let
me try this differently: anyone who installs ANY software and puts
it into production without dry-running it should be shot. You're
apparently looking for a "configuring Majordomo without trying to
read Perl, look at Majordomo debug output, or think about it as a
Unix tool" document, from a software-customer perspective. I don't.
I'm glad people are working on the software instead of documenting
it for non-sysadmins. I'm glad it's a Unix toolkit, not a software
package.
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