From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 25 8:22: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22BB414A1A for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 08:22:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA29160; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 11:21:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 11:21:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey To: Ron Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mass Email In-Reply-To: <38147264.B5106584@seidata.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org We do something similar - we have a mass email list for stuff they just gotta get - like notices of planned outtage (if you dont force feed them that, they whine they didnt get told - cant win) and then a usergroup they can sign up to for non-must knows. On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Ron wrote: > We were doing about the same thing, but were constantly getting requests > to not mail users because they weren't > interested. Each time the list was opened it was regenerated out of the > password file. So just last week we made the > "userlist" a majordomo list and allow people to opt out of it. Our > adduser script just echos a line to the end of > the majordomo list. > > Ron Schunk > Seidata/venus.net > Sysadmin > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message