Norma Harwood wrote:
>
> Just a couple of "newbie" questions.  I'm setting up my first
> one-way/announce list and it has over 10,000 names on it.  I'm scared stiff
> I'm going to get umpteen thousand requests to be removed.
>
> 1. Should a recipient hit the reply button on an "announce only" list, what
> happens to the message?
>
> 2.  Should someone choose to hit "reply" to remove themselves from the list
> instead of following the directions and write the server, what happens?
>
> 3.  If I send the message out to the list, will all of the responses as in 1
> and 2 above come to my personal mailbox?  If so, how do I send a message from
> the "list" and not me?
>
> Norma Harwood
> (Jittery as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.)

As well you should be... Jittery that is.

Don't do this.  Instead, do this...

Create your list.  Leave it Empty.  Send a one-time e-mail to your
list of names announcing the list, and telling them how to subscribe
if they are interested.  This will generate a certain level of hate
mail from the rabid anti-spam folks on your list.  To actually
subscribe them and have them start getting regular mailings from
the list will generate approximately an order of magnitude or two
greater levels of hate-mail.

To send the "one-time" mailing, look into the listserv "distribute"
function.


Harold