From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 14 15:12:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cytherianage.net (cb801971-a.rchstr1.mn.home.com [24.17.34.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DAC337B422 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:12:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (rtdean@localhost) by cytherianage.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8EMBai14850; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:11:36 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:11:36 -0500 (CDT) From: "Ryan T. Dean" To: Vivek Khera Cc: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: negative proccnt In-Reply-To: <14785.19494.256991.220906@onceler.kciLink.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Vivek Khera wrote: > >>>>> "CB" == Chris BeHanna writes: > > CB> You might consider switching to majordomo or listproc. Both are > CB> written in perl, and will run natively under FreeBSD. > > Have you ever tried to manage a multi-thousand member list with those? > With lyris, I have to do zero administration work to clean up after > the list manager. With every other list manager, I had to do lots of > work manually to clean out bogus addresses and such. Then look at listar. It is new to the ports tree, but has been around for quite some time. Originally built as a replacement for majordomo, has quite a few of the features and configurability of L-Soft's LISTSERV. Handles bounce unsubscribing, everything. Runs suid to its own uid and gid. Listar has been used on several very large lists. Something to think about. :) Cheers! -Ryan T. Dean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message