Majordomo alternatives [was re [LI] Sudhakar Chandrasekharan]

["Suresh Ramasubramanian" <Suresh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24 Nov 99, at 17:46, thus spake Sudhakar Chandrasekharan:

> Not neccesarily.  Majordomo is good in some of the things it does. 
> But it still has a long way to go in delivering all the stuff they

Give it a break.  Lots of stuff can yet be done.

> Filters, auto reply bots (who needs to reply to all the bounces??)
> etc. will do a lot of the work for you.  Hint - see
> http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/majordomo-faq.html#3.2

> I already do this.  But even with this it is a pain to maintain.  I
> get bombarded with 300+ mails bouncing from overflowing hotmail /

Tell you what then - route bounces straight back to the sender, or 
redirect them to dev/null - if the post doesnt get through, then 
repost.

> yahoo mail boxen.  listar (or is it smartlist) has a very nice
> configurable feature where you can specify the number of bounces
> from 

I'll ask a few friends who know majordomo (and have been using it 
for ages).  They might be able to help

> ListServ, because of its commercial nature is not an option for me.

It is raw power however.  Brilliant listserver.

--s


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