On 12.05.2001 14.22, "Clayton McGow" <mrwilder@atoznet.com> rambled:
> Hi,
>
> I want to set up a mailing list - but not a discussion
> list. For instance, I want to be able to tell people that
> the server will be going down for maintenance at 3:00 am...
> but I dont want other people to be able to reply to the same
> address and send their message to all the subscribers.
>
> I thought of two ways around this:
>
> 1) moderate the list. that's no good cause then the
> moderator would have to get lots of email from majordomo
> itself about "approval", and it would be hard to ignore them
> because they may be legitimate "subscribe" or "unsubscribe"
> requests. (etcetera) Am I right? (or would making the
> subscribe policy "open" fix that?)
>
> 2) make the "reply to" address different from the list. That
> doesn't seem very good, because people want to be able to
> "unsubscribe" by hitting "reply"
>
>
> Does anyone have a better solution as to how to set up a
> "one way" mailing list?
>
> I'm sure it's obvious, but, uh, ... I seem to be suffering
> majordomo brain drain!
>
> Thanks anyone!
Clayton:
I would set up an announcement list using qpopper's bulletin feature. You
can use that for one-time mailings to which no reply is desired and/or
required. It works pretty well with most implementations of sendmail. It's
target "mailing list" is simply the password file of the host system, though
if I recall correctly, an alternate list can easily be used as well.
The main page for qpopper is: http://www.eudora.com/qpopper. Note that
version 4.0 is now out and Qualcomm has decided to allow qpopper to remain
open-source *hooray* Take a look at the doc/Release.Notes file for more
specific information on how to set up bulletins.
Excerpt from that file: "Added a 'POP bulletin' feature. This feature gives
system administrators a way to send important announcements to all POP users
without having to do sendmail mass mailings."
Qpopper would obviate the necessity of subscribe and unsubscribe options as
well. Having been a sysadmin for a long time it was always my experience
that you sometimes needed to protect users from themselves - and giving them
the option to unsubscribe and therefore be uninformed of downtimes often
caused problems in terms of increased call load to your HelpDesk and upset
users/customers.
Does that sound like it would work better for your needs? I would think
that if you are trying to avoid having the sysadmin inundated with
unnecessary mail, that would be the way to go.
One other alternative that comes quickly to mind would be to use motd - but
that will only work if the users you are targeting can login at a command
prompt - which I'm guessing is not the case here, correct?
Hope this helps.
Kyle Allender
108 Meadow St.
Lodi, WI 53555-1020
608.592.5203
608.279.9035 cell
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