[Techtalk] Alternative ways to implement a mailing list...

[Jason Landry]

Now that we've isolated this one point, I'd like to work it for one or
two more sweeps before putting it to bed. We're talking about a "shoe
string budget" mailing list, using nothing but the capabilities
provided by a budget web hosting provider (mine says I can have up to
10 e-mail addresses and 2000 aliases).

> And how do you allow users to unsubscribe? How do you
> confirm that a person really wanted to sign up?

I'll define adminATdomain; users will send un/subscribe requests here.
If a recursion or other problem came up, I'd just have to deal with it
on the spot.

My hosting plan -- provided by 1&1 in France -- is managed via a
graphical web console. Am I pretty much at the mercy of my provider
here? I don't see a way to define these "alias lists/mappings" in the
gui console. But then why would they provide 2000 aliases? I'm *still*
waiting on a response vis-a-vis from their support staff, btw. But
what's your take, Tamara? Am I missing something in the gui console?
Or can we assume -- have you seen this practice before? -- that they
offer shell access -- it's under Linux -- for "advanced" users or
something, and that's where I'd be able to set everything up?

-- J