Top Document: Mailing list management software FAQ Previous Document: 1.00 Running your list without an MLM Next Document: 2.00 What's your preferred software-design philosophy? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge If your system isn't well connected or you're not the system administrator, you may be better off using the MLM on someone else's system. Alternatively, there are a few MLM's that can be installed and run on Unix systems without root access (though you'll always want a few new aliases set up, and the system administrator has to get involved in making those). Three packages that are designed to work well for non-root administrators are SmartList, MReply, and IDG; others may work well, too, and I will check on that more carefully for future versions of this FAQ. Many commercial services now provide MLM services to their subscribers. Using your provider's MLM, you don't need to worry about the system's care and feeding, or the heavy loads an MLM can generate (though many large lists do run well on small machines). Contact your provider for details. If your list is not for profit, you may find someone to host it on their MLM for free. If you're an academic in the U.K., the people at mailbase.ac.uk may be able to help you: read about Mailbase below, then write to its maintainers, telling them how many subscribers the list will have, how many messages you expect each day, and whether you will need any storage space for message archives or associated files. Outside the U.K., check with the large and friendly community of LISTSERV administrators on LSTSRV-L@uga.cc.uga.edu. Subscribe to LSTSRV-L as described in the LISTSERV section below, then post a message asking (politely! and giving the same information as outlined for Mailbase) if anyone has the facilities and the interest to run your list for you. Both LISTSERV and Mailbase are built for remote administration, so if you have just an e-mail account this is a good way to go. User Contributions:Top Document: Mailing list management software FAQ Previous Document: 1.00 Running your list without an MLM Next Document: 2.00 What's your preferred software-design philosophy? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: naleks@Library.UMMED.EDU
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