Is it fairly easy st set up a mailing list then ?

How does one do it in linux - for general use ?

Matt

> Resent-Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:00:55 -0500
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 07:10:45 +0800 (WST)
> From: John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> > 
> > I'd like to do one of two things with this mailing list, as it's really
> > become a significant amount of traffic. Either move it to a newsgroup, 
> 
> Too open to spamming (we get too much now) and email-address harvesting.
> 
> 
> > or move it to a place willing to host the java-linux and java-linux-digest
> > lists. The world unfortunately isn't a place of free bandwidth forever
> > and I have to make some decisions. 
> 
> java-linux is not a high-bandwidth mailing-list.
> 
> I suggest looking at your configuration. I can imagine that if your system
> transmits every email individually that your system sees a log of outgoing
> traffic. Note that your IAP also sees this same traffic. If you configure
> your sendmail to use your IAP's system as a mail relay, your outgoing mail
> traffic will diminish enormously at little cost to your IAP.
> 
> The best thing from your pint of view is that the improvement will be
> immediate: it can be achieved today (yesterday my time).
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> John Summerfield
> http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support.
> Configuration, networking, combined IBM ftpsites index.
> 

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