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From: andreas@newsigi.us (Andreas C. Lemke)
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Subject: mailing-list demon
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Date: 12 Feb 91 15:19:03 GMT
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Hi,

I would like to create a mailing list with as little administrative
effort for myself as possible.  To that end *everybody* should be able
to add, update, or remove people from the list, as well as obtain a
listing of the current mail addresses on the list.  This should be
doable by mail, e.g., if a new person wanted to be added to the alias
he/she would simply send a mail-message containing a command such as
"add joe@abc.edu" and some sort of demon should carry out the command.

Do you guys know of some software that filters incoming mail messages
for commands and executes them?  I'm thinking of something like a perl
script to be installed as the alias for mailing-list-request.

Thanks.
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..................					       Andreas C. Lemke
... andreas ..:-).			      CS Dept., U. of Colorado, Boulder
..................			andreas@cs.colorado.edu, (303) 492-1503