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Re: LYNX-DEV lynx-dev list status/problems
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Jim Dennis |
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Re: LYNX-DEV lynx-dev list status/problems |
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Sat, 12 Jul 1997 18:01:35 -0700 |
> <address@hidden> wrote and:
> a) mentioned "procmail";
> What is it , and where can i find out more?
procmail is a "little language" for scripting the
PROCessing of MAIL. It was written by
Stephen R. van den Berg at RWTH-Aachen, Germany
address@hidden
-- you can find an FAQ and some links to procmail
at:
Procmail FAQ
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/%7Ereriksso/procmail/mini-faq.html
I also wrote an article on procmail for the Linux Gazette
at: http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue14/procmail.html
There is a related package called SmartList -- by the
same author. SmartList is an automated mail list
management package which is written largely as procmail recipes
-- but which call on a couple of small binaries for the bulk
of their work. This gives a good balance of customizability
and extensability with very good performance and low overhead
(compared to Majordomo). SmartList is also appreciated among
list managers (http://www.greatcircle.com/lists.html)
for it's automatic bounce management and intelligent "diversion"
(most list requests that are sent to the list rather than the
-request address are detected and diverted automatically).
I realize this is off-topic so I won't go into any detail on
these subjects.
> b) {Henry} thinks about spam that:
> > "The ultimate decision I hope will be made by sig.net..."
>
> It seems akin to my ISP situation:
> At my ISP *i* have no say whatever, what happens on their end,
> other than the "member_political" clout thru the Board...
> [ I am exercising that right. AND i am walking that avenue,
> which seems a long one. ;) ]
I currently have a co-located host on the net. This site is
primarily for the use of a small non-profit literary organization
of which I'm a member (http://www.lasfs.org) -- However, I might
be willing to host a list at that site -- and I've made it clear
to my "guest" that there use of the system is non-exclusive.
The bandwidth is being donated by another friend of the club --
so I have to be sensitive to his needs.
> The issue that i am concerned about is censorship! To wit:
> What else [ other than "spam" ] is getting "blocked"...
> Our Board doesn't even know that "blocking" is taking place...
> The membership at large (10,000?) does not have a clue...
> There were no announcements... ;=))
Is the membership really this large? That's a pretty big
mailing list. One feature of SmartList is that you can
configure it to support "exploders" for a distributed
list. Basically you set it up so that each subscriber is
put on a particular host -- each host passes it's messages to
the master which then passes it to each of the exploders.
50 messages a day for 10,000 subscribers would be a
half-million mails a day. That's a considerable load
(http loads are typically much lighter than smtp).
So, how many subscribers do we have?
--
Jim Dennis, address@hidden
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Starshine Technical Services http://www.starshine.org
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