Hi, I'm seeking any information - book references, URLs, etc. - on configuring mailing lists within a largish company (several thousand employees) to optimise...
David Sharp
David.Sharp@...
Aug 8, 2000 8:31 am
10409
... Do you known the free (GPL) software named sympa ? It allow very large lists and a lot of configuration. One of them allows to create distribution list...
Aumont - Comite Resea...
Serge.Aumont@...
Aug 8, 2000 10:45 am
10410
Bonjour, ... Try the script listed here http://www.dolist.net/helpers.asp "A trick to optimize e-mail delivery for big lists. The idea is to write all e-mail...
Denis Olivier
d.olivier@...
Aug 9, 2000 11:05 pm
10411
... This usually turns out to be a poor tradeoff, it sends fewer bits over the wire but the overall list delivery is slower than delivering in random order, ...
John R Levine
johnl@...
Aug 10, 2000 4:21 am
10412
... Me, I stand firmly in both camps at once. What I do is model the system to figure out how much parallelism I can handle, and then split up my list into...
Chuq Von Rospach
chuqui@...
Aug 10, 2000 5:15 am
10413
... And if you are using VERP or other similar protocols (if any) to customize the email to each user to automate bounce tracking, the advantage of sorting is...
Mike Avery
mavery@...
Aug 10, 2000 7:57 pm
10414
Look at their webpage, lower left.... Yay! -=Bob...
Bob McCown
rmccown@...
Aug 14, 2000 2:11 pm
10415
seaport2:/# /usr/local/majordomo/wrapper config-test wrapper: Trying to exec /usr/local/majordomo/config-test failed: Input/output error Did you define PERL...
Dave Reinhardt
Dave@...
Aug 22, 2000 4:12 am
10416
printf 'From: dave@...\n\nhelp\nlists\n' | ./wrapper majordomo works fine, but will not work when request is made by eMail Dave...
Dave Reinhardt
Dave@...
Aug 22, 2000 4:16 am
10417
Any thoughts? <http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000820.html> (it probably won't be a surprise that I agree with 99% of what he says, not if you've been...
Chuq Von Rospach
chuqui@...
Aug 23, 2000 1:11 am
10418
... I disagree here. Personal, one-on-one communication is done more efficiently via the telephone. The big strengths of email are: - that you can communicate...
Norbert Bollow
nb@...
Aug 23, 2000 1:25 pm
10419
... The usual Nielsen porridge of warmed-over platitudes and whimsical fiats, dressed in punditspeak to keep the career ball rolling. Jorn Barger takes a...
Tom Neff
tneff@...
Aug 23, 2000 5:40 pm
10420
... [...] Actually, looking at email from a long term perspective, email has always been, and I suspect always will be, probably the best means of one-on-one ...
Bernie Cosell
bernie@...
Aug 23, 2000 5:54 pm
10421
... Perhaps by you, but not by me. My strengths are in written communications. My weakness lies in verbal communication. ... I could agree with that. We...
Alan S. Harrell
ashandrr@...
Aug 23, 2000 6:07 pm
10422
Chuq asked, ... The opening section and the "future of mailing lists" predictions were both stuck on the use of mailing lists for companies to send sales ads...
David W. Tamkin
dattier@...
Aug 23, 2000 7:04 pm
10423
... Dear Bernie, I agree with you on your first four points, in your letter, above, but I must wholeheartedly disagree on the last two, those being the ...
Anthony J. Albert
albert@...
Aug 24, 2000 2:21 pm
10424
... I can't see that as much of a problem. There are two rather different ways you can use usenet software. One is the traditional approach used for the well...
John R Levine
johnl@...
Aug 24, 2000 6:16 pm
10425
... There are also problems with threading. Both with your mailer being able to properly thread messages (which isn't really an issue if your mailer doesn't...
Aaron Schrab
aaron+lm@...
Aug 24, 2000 7:14 pm
10426
... Not true. Anyone can run a news server. Microsoft has a whole pile of 'private' newsgroups. The Zone-Labs folk provide tech discussion/support via...
Bernie Cosell
bernie@...
Aug 24, 2000 7:18 pm
10427
... e-mail is a technology designed for one to one communication. It's great for that. The problem is that you can overwhelm a user's email easily -- email ...
Chuq Von Rospach
chuqui@...
Aug 24, 2000 7:32 pm
10428
... It's useful to distinguish between netnews technology and current netnews implementation. The easy (lazy) way to set up a newsgroup is to create it on the...
Tim Pierce
twp@...
Aug 24, 2000 8:46 pm
10429
... But -- on systems I've done where threading exists, I've found most people hate it. -- Chuq Von Rospach - Plaidworks Consulting...
Chuq Von Rospach
chuqui@...
Aug 24, 2000 8:49 pm
10430
... That's true, but what mailing lists can do that newsgroups cannot is restrict access/posting permission on a *list by list* basis. AFAIK, all available...
Jim Trigg / Blaise de...
blaise@...
Aug 24, 2000 10:33 pm
10431
... That's fine. If people don't want to use threading (although I think that's quite strange) that's their choice. All the mailers that I'm familiar with...
Aaron Schrab
aaron+lm@...
Aug 24, 2000 11:45 pm
10432
... yeah. I don't know if it's because they don't like threading, the threading implementations aren't good, or they don't understand (aka aren't used to)...
Chuq Von Rospach
chuqui@...
Aug 25, 2000 12:05 am
10433
... Not true -- it's fairly easy to restrict posting, actually, at least with traditional spool situations. you simply use group permissions in the directory...
Chuq Von Rospach
chuqui@...
Aug 25, 2000 12:23 am
10434
... Not at all. If you set your newsgroups to moderated, you can apply any posting rules you want. Regards, John Levine, johnl@..., Primary Perpetrator...
John R Levine
johnl@...
Aug 25, 2000 12:50 am
10435
... Really? Usenet users love it, the biggest complaint about certain brands of news readers is that there's no threading. This may be because usenet software...
John R Levine
johnl@...
Aug 25, 2000 12:54 am
10436
... INN hasn't been all-or-nothing for eons, certainly since I've been running news. You've pretty much always had the ability to bang out wildmat patterns in...
Russ Allbery
rra@...
Aug 25, 2000 1:54 am
10437
List Members, I'm sure this has been discussed ad nauseam over the years, and I have been plowing through the archives to get an answer from the past, but due...
