On Sat, 12 May 2001, Kyle S. Allender wrote:
> 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.
That works very well if all your customers use POP3 mail, but if you have
customers doing UNIX shell logins and using pine, elm or whatever then
they will never see the announcements. I used to use qpopper's "bulletin"
feature to hit my POP3 users and Solaris' "news" feature to hit my UNIX
shell users, but that was double work. For the past several years I have
been using a closed Majordomo list to which only I can post (using
restrict-post), with the subscriber list created by a script running
against my /etc/passwd file. Works great.
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