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From: marvit@HPLPM.HPL.HP.COM (Peter Marvit)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Moderating a mailing list digest
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Date: 17 Aug 90 17:08:04 GMT
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I have had great success using MH's own aliasing with a moderated mailing
list of over 900 names.  I found our local sendmail had a magic limit of
around 500 addresses, though that was many revisions ago.  I decided to
take the job up to the User Agent, away from the transport layer.

I suggest you do something like:

	To: my-mailing-list: my-mh-alias;

to do "address hiding" according RFC-822.  Recipients will only see

	To: my-mailing-list:;

which tends also to cut down on bogus replies to everyone.

As an extra precaution, perhaps unnecessary now, I also split my large
list dynamically into smaller chucks of 50-100 addresses when I send out
a Digest.  I'll be glad to send ksh scripts, but they're a little
specialized for my exact setup.

You might talk to your local sendmail guru to see if there are any
hidden/magic limits you might be exceeding at your site, if you don't
want to bother with the MH alias usage.

	-Peter "Neuron Digest Moderator" Marvit

: Peter Marvit   Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, CA   (415) 857-6646    :
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