Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 15:41:49 -0700 (PDT) From: David Lowe <dlowe@sirius.com> To: Victor Sudakov <vas@vas.tomsk.su> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bulk mailer Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95q.970812153359.687A-100000@ds9> In-Reply-To: <199708101242.UAA01414@vas.tomsk.su>
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Victor and ISP-people - This port is actually a program designed for use with majordomo - it simply sorts the list by domain name for feeding to sendmail. It significantly improves the throughput of large majordomo mailing lists (or any other mailing list that uses a plaintext address list.) I don't think this particular tool would be useful to a spammer. I was the person who ported this software, because I found it invaluable as an add-on to majordomo when managing large lists. It's not important to keep it in the ports collection if it's going to cause a lot of misgivings (it's a very simple program, and a very very simple port, and easy enough to find.) At any rate, it's not my decision. Just thought I would state the intention of the (poorly named) software in question. Thanks, David Lowe On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Hello Colleagues. > > Do you think it was a wise idea to include a bulk mailer into the ports > collection? It looks like encouraging spammers. > > > -- > Victor Sudakov > http://www.tomsk.su/r/persons/vas.htm > >
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