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In article <1991Mar29.022207.26665@watdragon.waterloo.edu> cpshelle@logos.uwaterloo.ca (cameron shelley) writes:
} Hi!  I've been using Mush (7.1.2) for a short time and reading
} the group etc, but I haven't seen an faq yet.

Anybody want to volunteer to make one up?  I don't think I've seen the
same question come by more than 2 or 3 times, except of course for "where
do I get mush?" which seems to be repeated monthly. :-)

BTW, I have word that Rich $alz will be posting 7.2.2 to comp.sources.unix
in the near future -- sometime after April 7.

} So, I'll just
} ask my silly question:  what's the best way to manage a mailing
} list with mush?  Many thanks,
} 
} 				Cam

Depends on what you need to do.  Some very general recommendations:

1.  Make sure mush was compiled with a large HDRSIZ.  I had to compile
    with HDRSIZ 10240 to support a mailing list that was being run from
    ogicse.

2.  Break the mailing list up into groups and create an aliases for each
    group.  Keep in mind that mush won't accept a backslash-continued
    line longer than BUFSIZ (usually 1024 characters) in .mushrc.  Then
    make the mailing list name an alias for all the groups' aliases.
    This will avoid the BUFSIZ limitations and help organize the list.
    It also means you can have one or more groups of recipients that are
    Bcc'd, so that they are "anonymous" recipients of the list.

3.  Unless you are planning to moderate the list -- e.g., examine all
    submissions and decide which to send out -- the best way to run a
    mailing list is to get your system adminstrator to make an entry for
    the list in /usr/lib/aliases (or whatever your MTA uses) and bypass
    mush altogether.

4.  If there is such an entry in /usr/lib/aliases, but you still want
    use mush's alias mechanism to send mail to the list, you can set
    no_expand to leave the alias name unexpanded in the To: line.  You
    shouldn't do this if the mailing list name is not a legitimate mail
    recipient, though.
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Bart Schaefer                                           schaefer@zipcode.com
Z-Code Software Corporation                             schaefer@cse.ogi.edu