Also Sprach Crispin Cowan <crispin@private> on Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 01:59:17PM PDT > Zot O'Connor wrote: > > >1) Read the thread all the way before replying! There have been a > >number of questions asked when the answers were given. > > > CRIME has at least a 30 minute delay between submitting a post and the > post appearing. It is likely that Seth had not seen George's post at the > time Seth posted. > > This delay is because Majordomo blows. Mailman can post to 500 people in > a few minutes, while Majordomo can take 45 minutes to do the same task. Actually, Mailman's working around a defect in Sendmail's ability to perform bulk delivery. With a newer Sendmail, the 'bulkdelivery' agent, Postfix, or probably any other MTA, bulk delivery is broken up into groups which can be delivered in parallel. > >Therefore I ask that no archives of the CRIME list be published without > >some form of protection (anonimizing/email munging), and that you > >announce those archives on the list periodically. > > > Mailman would take care of this for us, too: > > * creates a nice, threaded archive of the list > * lets you control access to the list, so that only subscribers can > read the archive > * optionally munges e-mail addresses > * bonus: Mailman can be configured to allow only subscribers to > post, which stops nearly 100% of spam sent to the list I admit that I prefer Mailman over Majordomo, but PSU hosts quite a few mailing lists and has procedures set up for managing all of them; I doubt they're ready for a wholesale migration to Mailman. Unless you're volunteering to take over hosting on Mithra ;) Wil -- W. Reilly Cooley wcooley@private Naked Ape Consulting http://nakedape.cc * Linux and Network Consulting * irc.linux.com #orlug,#lnxs A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with -- even if he drank. -- H.L. Mencken
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