On May 5, 2001 Clayton McGow wrote:
> 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.
> [snip]
> Does anyone have a better solution as to how to set up a "one way"
> mailing list?
Do you want people to be able to subscribe and unsubscribe from your
announcement list? If so, set it up as a normal Majordomo list but use
"restrict-post" to point to a file containing only your address. That way
you can post to the list, but if anyone replies it will bounce to the list
owner (you). You can then decide whether to respond off-list to the
attempted reply, or just delete the reply.
Is it to be a captive list of everyone on your system? If so, set it up
as a closed list and use restrict-post as above. Devise a script run as a
cron job to periodically update the subscriber list from the contents of
your /etc/passwd file. (Or simply run the script manually before you post
an announcement).
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