You may want to consider some basic performance tuning for sending large amounts of email and limited anti-spam to prevent lists being overwhelmed by crap (moderated or not). I would make it mailman specific, if it isn't you may as well call it "mailing lists".
Kurt Seifried, [EMAIL PROTECTED] A15B BEE5 B391 B9AD B0EF AEB0 AD63 0B4E AD56 E574 http://seifried.org/security/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Streicher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 12:44 PM Subject: [Mailman-Announce] A book on Mailman? Opinions, please. > Dear Mailman Users: > > My name is Martin Streicher, and I am the Editor for Open Source books > at Apress (http://www.apress.com). I am considering publishing a book > on Mailman and would like to hear your opinions. > > Briefly, the book would be very focused on Mailman, would be about > 150-200 pages, and would sell for less than $20. The book would be very > hands-on, something you would keep in your lap and work through as you > installed and configured Mailman with the MTA and web browser of your > choice. Then the book would switch to a problem-solution section, > useful for when you are troubleshooting or adding features to your > configuration, or trying to help users manage their Mailman accounts. > > My questions: > > 1/ Is such a book needed, and what is it's potential? > > 2/ If it is needed, what information should it include? What problems > come up time and again? > > 3/ Should it only be about Mailman, or should it include ezmlm, > Mailman, and Majordomo? > > 4/ Finally, what other topics in system administration might fit this > format -- short, project-oriented, solutions -- well? > > Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to your replies. > Please send replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will post a summary of all > replies so as to share the info, but not clutter the list in the > interim. > > Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailman-announce mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-announce > Member address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-announce/listuser%40seifried.org > _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
