[Mailman-Users] Need help for decisions

[Jon Carnes]

If you bring up a box with RedHat 7.2, I'll be happy to secure the box for
you and to do the initial setup of your mailman.  Call me a sucker, but it
sounds like a good cause.

DSL has high latencies and contention so it makes for a bad network
connection for a server, still if the traffic is low and your ISP has some
good mailservers, Mailman should work.  You will, however, need a static IP
or DNS address.

Folks are going to drop off Mail to your server, so the mail will have to
find the server across the internet. It cannot do that unless you have
either a static IP or you subscribe to a dynamic hosting site which updates
your DNS everytime your ip address changes.  And example of such a service
is HN.net (this is free for folks using opensource os'es... or at least it
used to be.)

Also, a UPS really helps.

Take care.  Let me know if you need my help,

Jon Carnes

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Cooley [mailto:cooleydd at pacbell.net]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 11:42 AM
To: mailman-users at python.org
Subject: [Mailman-Users] Need help for decisions


To All

I hope it is OK to post something like this on this list.

I have about 20 prostate cancer mailing lists (presently on Yahoo) and
probably the best prostate cancer web site there is at
http://www.cooleyville.com/cancer .  Everything in non commercial and I
have been funding the whole one man operation out of my pocket.  It is
about to get expensive.  One of my lists is on Lsoft and is presently 850
members.  The cost on their Home programs around $150 per month.  Now when
I get to 1000 members this cost will triple - can't afford that.  The web
site and the mailing lists are too valuable to let go as many men around
the world have depended on the advise they receive.

Looks like I have three options:
1.  To find a web hosting that would allow all the mailing lists at a
decent price.  Have been unable to find that.

2.  I do have DSL at home and could make up a computer to host my own
mailing lists but I am not skilled enough to set up RedHat (or other) and
install Mailman without some help. Since I am in Silicon Valley help
should be available but can't find anyone around here with expertise with
Mailman.  Don't know if ADSL would handle the load.  1 list at 30 messages
a day (max of 80) 2 lists at 10 a day and the balance at 1 or 2 a day.

3.  Find someone who would be willing to put these on their server as a
donation to the cause or at a small cost.  Maybe a host that I could not
find. What would really be nice (but certainly not required) would be the
ability to have my own domain name for a mailing list.

Maybe someone out there who has prostate cancer (I am a patient) or has
family who has prostate cancer may understand where I am coming from.

Any other ideas?

I apologize if I am in error posting here but am getting desperate <grin>.

 Don

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