On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:41:33 CST, Kevin Williams <[log in to unmask]>  said:
> How do other people handle requests for new mailing lists sent to the
> postmaster account?  Use the Web form exclusively?

1) Have the "postmaster" mail forwarded to another userid/address that's
listed as a Listserv maintainer.

1a) We've automated a lot of the add-a-list functionality using the web
form, so (for example) professors asking for class lists get done on the fly.

1b) Our documentation points other people at a "request a list" webpage,
which invokes a CGI that sends the request to one of us for verification/action.

End result is that I see perhaps 1 list request per year coming to the
address [log in to unmask] - the OTHER 3,000+ lists are all
directed to The Right Non-Postmaster Place.

2) Use mail software that makes it easier to reconfigure - I use 'exmh',
which lets me compose with different headers on a per-message basis. I'm
told that Eudora Pro has "roles" that support similar.


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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech