From: drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: breakout lists/discussion channels Date: Thu, 28 May 1992 11:22:42 GMT
In article <1992May27.004418.19887@athena.mit.edu> jgifford@attmail.com writes:
>The list/c.o.l. news group may not have split, and may never split, but there
>are many lists for the discussion of various topics under linux.
>I know of two, linux-man, and linux-serial.
There was also linux-scsi (replaced by the SCSI channel of the linux-activists
list). There is also linux-standards.
>As far as I know, anyone that wants to can set up their own list,
>but they ought to check with their sysadmin first.
Unless you have root permission on your machine, or an
automated mechanism for adding sendmail aliases, you will
need to check with your sysadmins first.
And, if your site uses a distributed aliases file, it might
be more problematic than that.
If you run your own mailing list, there are two viable options :
1. Use a sendmail include file.
This is an include file, such as /headrest/users/drew/linux-scsi.alias,
which has all of the sub aliases. This will be editable by you,
and allow easy modification of the list.
The main limitation of this method is that sendmail has a 1024 byte
limit per alias, imposed by the DBM files it uses.
2. Use a mailing list manager
This is the preferable method, as users can be automatically added
to the mailing list.
Also, the mailing list manager, a single small entry (pipe to program)
in the aliases file is unaffected by the 1024 byte per alias
limit.
An easier alternative to this whole mess is to use the MailNet
program that runs the linux-activists list.
Simply mail to linux-activists a message with the following in the
header :
X-MN-Admin: create <channel>
Where channel is the name of the channel you want -
ie
X-MN-Admin: create SCSI
created the SCSI channel to create a channel.
Users can join it by saying
X-MN-Admin: join SCSI
leave with leave, etc.
The
X-MN-Key:
field determines what channel a message goes to.
X-
>PS, for those interested, the above mentioned lists are as follows:
>linux-serial@stolaf.edu
>join by sending mail to linux-serial-request@stolaf.edu
>linux-man@stolaf.edu
>join by sending mail to linux-man@stolaf.edu
>PLEASE NOTE: these lists are being maintained by Michael K Johnson as
>linux-serial-request@stolaf.edu and linux-man-request@stolaf.edu
>Michael, if I've got anything wrong here, let me know. :)
Add to that the various channels of linux-activists, namely
X11, MGR, NORMAL, SCSI.