RE: Webmin Newsgroups?

[Marcos R. - A. W. <pu...@al...>]

Jason:

lyris is an incredible strong mailing list program, but:

1.- it's not free unless you have a mailing list with less than.. .mmm.. I
think 150 subscribers or so.

2.- to run optimally, it needs to use it's own MTA.

In any case... besides lyris... I don't know... I do not like the idea of
a newsgroup... in one hand if you are involved with webmin, at least you
have a *nix sistem capable of having mailboxes... and in the other, with a
news group we open ourselves up to tons of spam, and that our mailaddress
will be "collected" by spammers!.... If you decide to go that
route... well.. I hope you can find a way to munge the mailaddress... or
at least give us a little time to change the address of our subs.

Cheers!
Marcos



On Wed, 23 May 2001, Jason M. Grigg wrote:

> This is just a suggestion, but at my company we use a software called Lyris.
> I'm not sure if it could be gatewayed to both directions, but it could be
> worth investigating.  Also, a workaround would be to have a user address in
> the list server to post to the newsgroup, and have all newsgroup messages
> forwarded to web...@li....  I know that sounds
> a little bit outlandish, but it could be possible if this is importand.
> Just my 2 cents...
> 
> Jason
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web...@li...
> [mailto:web...@li...]On Behalf Of Rodolfo
> J. Paiz
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 9:50 AM
> To: web...@li...
> Subject: Re: Webmin Newsgroups?
> 
> 
> At 5/22/01 10:39 PM +0800, you wrote:
> >One thing that would be cool is having the mailing list gatewayed to a
> >newsgroup
> >in both directions, so that every post to webmin.general goes to the list
> >and vice
> >versa. Is that kind of two-way gateway actually possible though?
> 
> While I have *no* idea how to do this, I know that such a thing exists; so
> if someone wants to do it, it won't be a futile search.
> 
> Whosoever decides to go after this, please keep in mind that mail and news
> each have their advantages. I, for example, do 95% of my mailing-list
> reading offline (in bed, in the car, on the plane) and news just doesn't
> cut it. I'm sure there are those who would be greatly benefited by news
> access, but I suggest that we try not to lose the actual functionality in
> the process.
> 
> 
> --
> Rodolfo J. Paiz
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