Re: private mailing lists

[Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>]

> we're running zmailer-2.2e6, and had setup some class mailing lists
> so that instructors could mail them easily (about 100 students per class).
> 
> It wasn't long before students started advertising 'book for sale' to
> 10 lists at a time, with 1000 copies of that message going into various
> mailboxes. Our short-term solution was to remove the lists, but the 
> profs miss them. Ideally, we'd like the lists to only be available
> to certain people.
> 
> Is there any way to have restricted mailing lists, so that profs can
> spam the students, but the students can't megaspam each-other?

	I would suggest MajorDomo, ListProc, et.al. MLM programs
	like those, that take part on message expansion.
	ZMailer's lists are essentially alias expansions without
	any control on who originated the message.

	(See at URL ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/mail/servers/ )

/Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>