At 15:43 2/28/95, Michael Corcoran wrote:
>We build mailing lists for our users based on what group they are in
>in /etc/passwd. For example, if a user is in group csgrad, they get
>put on a list for graduade students in computer science so the dept
>can send info to all of their students electronically. I didn't know
>of any software that would do this, so I wrote my own program in C
>to create these lists (this was more than a grep because there are
>exceptions and exemptions for each list). I then wrote another
>program in C to go through these lists and deliver the mail to each
>user one at a time after modifying the header so that inexperienced
>users could not accidentally reply to the entire list and start
>a chain reaction (this used to happen frequently).
No need for this. Just place the sender (ie: the Department) into the To
Header and place the broadcast alias into the Bcc and any reply will go
back to the Department.
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