Index of /Applications/News/C-News/Feb_1993_Release/contrib/nntpmail/mailing_lists/
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MANAGING AND REDISTRIBUTING MAILING LISTS
The tools described below allow you to set up a mailing list that is
- archived in a single file if you wish
- archived in one file per volume/issue if you wish
- gatewayed to a newsgroup (bi-directionally if you wish)
- well-behaved (the bounces go back to the owner, not to the whole list)
- protected from unauthorized perusal if you wish.
This requires something like the following aliases to be set-up.
example: "|/local/lib/mail/bin/moderate example-owner example-people",
"|/local/lib/mail/bin/distribute -a example -n list.example"
example-request: lamy
example-owner: lamy
example-people: ":include:/local/share/mail/lists/example"
For bi-directional gatewaying you need to edit the sys file on the news
server:
list.example:list.example/all::/news/bin/mailgateway example@ai.toronto.edu
The tools used are as follows:
a) redistributing a mailing list
moderate: used for setting up mail aliases so that bounces don't pester
the whole membership. Typically the members of the list will
be another alias that invokes "distribute" (below) so that
the contents get archived or/and fed to newsgroups.
b) gatewaying mailing lists to newsgroups, archival
distribute: takes a message, forwards it to mail recipients, gateways
into newsgroups, and archives the articles either one article
per file or mailbox style.
appendfile: setuid append program; required so that sensitive lists can
be protected.
c) gatewaying of newsgroups into mailing lists (bidirectionally as well).
mailgateway: Used on the news server, and invoked from the sys file, this
script allows notification of people who can't/won't read news.
Messages posted to a newsgroup are fed to a mailing list, except
if the message appears to have come from the mailing list in the
first place. This is detected by looking for the Approved:
header "distribute" tacks on. News control messages are
weeded out.