From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 3 00:38:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F2F51065673 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 00:38:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from flat.berklix.org (flat.berklix.org [83.236.223.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A394E8FC22 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 00:38:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from js.berklix.net (p549A6D1D.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.109.29]) (authenticated bits=0) by flat.berklix.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m230cSjs077488; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 01:38:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m230gEls030806; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 01:42:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m230fl3E070548; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 01:42:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <200803030042.m230fl3E070548@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Edwin Groothuis In-reply-to: <20080302235556.GA67445@k7.mavetju> References: <20080302215019.GA2949@k7.mavetju> <200803022345.m22Nj1L3069612@fire.js.berklix.net> <20080302235556.GA67445@k7.mavetju> Comments: In-reply-to Edwin Groothuis message dated "Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:55:56 +1100." Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:41:47 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" Cc: FreeBSD Advocacy Subject: Re: National mailinglists - why isn't it there yet? X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:38:31 -0000 Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > As a mailman-owner hosting about 60 lists, I can tell you that it > is possible in mailman to set the owner of a list to a person who > wants to have the list and let them handle the bounces and unknown > messages. Ah Yes, sorry, I was forgetting that, all thre lists I run bar 2 are owner=me, but yes majordomo supports per list owners too. > > What benefit/ trying to centrally administer foreign lists ? > > The benefit is that the remote people don't have to invest time and > money in setting up a mailman infrastructure and going through all > the learning process of getting everything right. > > It's not a "you must do it here", it's an "you can do it here". Ah, I see your point. Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix.com Mail just Ascii plain text. HTML & Base64 is spam.