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> I am setting up a mailing list for use within Intel and am wondering
> if there is a specific way it is done with the ARPA/usenet based lists.
> For starters, I plan on setting up an account with the .forward file
> containing the list of recipients.  Is there a better way to do this?
> 
Yes, given that .forward files work, I assume you are using sendmail.  Use
/usr/lib/aliases (look in the sendmail documentation).  This doesn't require
creating an account but has the same effect.

> One problem I see with my method is messages getting bounced back to 
> the poster for every wrong address in the list.

If you create a mailing list called m1, you can create an entry in
/usr/lib/aliases called owner-m1 which will grab at least some of the error
messages.  I think it only helps if your machine can tell the mail is
undeliverable (this would work for direct Internet mail connections, but
not multi-hop uucp connections).  Sendmail also supports a header called
Errors-To: which allows you to put an address to which to send bounced mail.
This will only work if the mail bounces on a machine running sendmail (I don't
think Errors-To: is a required header in any mail standard).  I'm not really
sure how you could get these into your mailing list mail without going in
any other mail (to put it in all the mail, you could modify sendmail.cf).
> 
> 	--Michael Bruck
> 
> Corporate CAD, Intel Corp, Santa Clara, California
> 
> UUCP:  ...{hplabs,decwrl,oliveb,amdcad}!intelca!mipos3!mike
> CSNET: mike@mipos3.intel.com


John Diamant
Systems Software Operation	UUCP:  {hplabs,hpfcla}!hpfclp!diamant
Hewlett Packard Co.		ARPA/CSNET: diamant%hpfclp@hplabs.HP.COM
Fort Collins, CO