On Fri, 8 Apr 1994 12:57:43 EDT you said:
>From reading this list, it sounds like the list owners have to do a lot of
>adiministration.  I had assumed that LISTSRV automated most routine tasks like
>adding and deleting users.  Is this true?
 
Well.. yes.  Listserv does a good job of automating most of this.  However,
some sites process literally 100,000 pieces of Listserv mail a *day* (Since
midnight, our Listserv has processed at least 2,346 pieces of mail, going
to 34,323 recipientns - and it's only 2PM).
 
Now, if 1% of 100,000 pieces of E-mail bounce, that's still 1,000 pieces of
bounce.  And even if Listserv then automates 95% of the remaining filtering,
that's still 50 pieces that gets sent to Postmaster or similar.
 
And of course, there's no way for Listserv to automate adding a person to
a closed list - by definition this sort of thing takes human intervention.
 
 
                                  Valdis Kletnieks
                                  Computer Systems Engineer
                                  Virginia Polytechnic Institute