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

[Jason Landry]

Kathryn Andersen <kat_lists at katspace.homelinux.org>

> You have a fixed IP? Then you could probably run
> a mailing list server yourself!

Yup Kat, that's pretty much the option domain here; do it myself or
hosting. If I have to go "all the way" and run my own server -- looks
likely -- my ISP appears "friendly" in this regard; I'm pretty sure --
if I read correctly -- that they handle the DNS end as well.

In this "ideal" scenario, I would run the website from 1&1 (3 nines
uptime, tons of bandwidth, etc.) and Mailman on my Fedora box at home.
Got some learning curve ahead of me with this route, but not
insurmountable... especially with the Chix on techtalk "by my side".

Here's the working masthead for the site, btw (thrown up on Geocities
for quick preview)
http://www.geocities.com/straslug/

--- just to touch on 1&1/e-mail for the last time, the only thing
that's got me scratching my head about the 2,000 aliases, is that the
plan has 10 e-mail addresses with up to 3 [as such] "many to one alias
redirections" per address. So I still don't know where they're getting
this *2,000* figure from ---

So I've got to fill out a clean, simple website. The LUG will be
"virtual", with the mailing lists as the centerpiece. Once
uploaded/hosted on 1&1, I'll convert my box over to a server... If any
of the Chix want to collaborate via e-mail/IRC/VoIP/SSH as far as
server configuration is concerned, just drop me a PM. This will be a
most vanilla of configurations and might even turn out to be a fun
little project... Thanks.

-- J