Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!troi.cc.rochester.edu!msir From: msir@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: REVISED: How do I send e-mail to lots of users at a remote unix site? Message-ID: <7697@ur-cc.UUCP> Date: 31 May 90 18:24:55 GMT References: <900531093625.30e0f102@Csa2.LBL.Gov> Sender: news@uhura.cc.rochester.edu Reply-To: Mark Sirota Lines: 22 In article <900531093625.30e0f102@Csa2.LBL.Gov> thermal%solgel.hepnet@CSA2.LBL.GOV writes: > I would like to be able to send a mail message to all the users on > ANOTHER unix machine via Internet. This sounds like a bad idea. Electronic mail isn't a good broadcast medium; if there are lots of users on your destination machine then you're going to eat up GOBS of disk space with hundreds of copies of your message in everyone's mailbox. Is there perhaps an appropriate newsgroup you can post to, or does the machine have msgs(1), or something like that? Perhaps you should ask the system administrator of the destination machine what would be a good medium for your message. Someone here once mailed all the users on our local public system, which has over 800 users. We, the system administrators, were somewhat upset. There are much better ways of doing this sort of thing. -- Mark Sirota - University of Rochester Computing Center, Rochester NY Internet: msir@cc.rochester.edu Bitnet: msir@uordbv.bitnet UUCP: {decvax,harvard,ames,rutgers}!rochester!ur-cc!msir