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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:21:00 GMT
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- From: jfm@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE
- Subject: Re: Mailing Lists from a central access point
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- Hi
-
- yc@nessy.rug.ac.be wrote :
-
- >Currently we are investigating the use of central subscription to mailinglists.
-
- It would help if we knew what hardware and OS platforms you are using.
-
- *IF* you are a VAX/VMS site then one option is to use the
- Geoff Heuston VAXNEWS package to access Usenet News.
-
- Another option worth looking at is the Mark London MIT PFC Bulletin package.
- Robust with a nice familiar VAX MAIL look-and-feel. With Bulletin running
- on several DECNETted VAXen, the users have a sort of distributed information
- system - rather like entering the VAX Mail environment and being able to
- transparently read folders residing on several remote machines.
- For several years my site has used bulletin - we 'feed' it about
- 50-ish mailing lists which can be accessed from the main vax or from
- several local decentted small vaxen running Bulletin.
- Moreover, if you have TCP/IP on your VAX and Usenet News on a local
- Unix box then Bulletin also gives transparent access to NEWS.
- Bulletin doesn't have the archiving facilities you describe - but
- then, mailing list archives are usually maintained at the site where
- they originate and are usually net-accessible.
- Last but by no means least - Bulletin is free.
-
- ...
- >The strategie we would like to follow is the following :
- >- a central subscribe to all the lists to which a lot of people on our
- > university do a subscribe
- >- Make it possible to all people to read the mail which is received by
- > these mailing-list, discussion-list, ... (with GOPHER)
- >- Make sure that the amount of data we have to keep on disk does not grow
- > out of proportion (i.e. moderate them)
- >- As soon as archive files of these lists are available, to let them come over
- > and replace the incomming-mail box by this archive (which --I hope-- has been
- > moderated already)
- >- Make it possible to all to browse through these archive-files (information
- which
- > is not very uptodate), but give the people the chance to be follow the
- discussion
- > and information for the mails which are send between the making of two
- archive-files.
- >My questuions :
- >1. is there some sofware available for easy moderation of large mailboxes which
- > belong to subscribed maillists, discussionlists, info-lists, ...
- >2. is there ready-to-use software which makes it possible to :
- > * get the archives (which are often kept on the server on which
- > a maillist resides) AUTOMATICALLY, when these archives are updated
- > (i.e the contents of the list is backed up into a (moderated) file)
- > -> maybe an option used when subscribing to a list??
- > * and clean the local mailbox (incomming mail) as soon as this archive
- > file has been send and received by the local machine.
- > -> point is we do not have to poll to know if these archive files are
- > already ready or not. This should be done automatically.
- >Yves Carlier
- >Software Admin
- >RUG - University of Ghent -- Belgium
- >e-mail : yc@nessy.rug.ac.be
-
- Regards
- jfm
-
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