[Mailman-Users] Reply to list

Chuq Von Rospach chuqui at plaidworks.com
Fri Feb 6 00:04:47 CET 2004


On Feb 5, 2004, at 2:27 PM, Brad Knowles wrote:
> 	Indeed, he has.  He doesn't like to brag about it, but he does run 
> some of the largest known Mailman mailing lists, and his systems are 
> on the same scale as the Kolstad & Chalup papers that I have 
> previously mentioned on this mailing list.  Chuq could probably write 
> the third installment in "How to Manage Very Large Mailing Lists".

I intend to, actually. And I have to note that my mailman installation 
is the smallest system I manage.

> 	If it was your job and your life that was on the line every single 
> time that one of your customers hit the reply key, which would you 
> want?  Do you really want to play Russian Roulette with 20,000 other 
> people?

I know people fired for that mistake. I've come awful close myself. On 
my own system, after an admin changed a setting he was told not to 
change.

Not fun.





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