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From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (id for use with uunet/usenet)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Security Mailing List Still out there?
Summary: Is it possible?
Message-ID: <221@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 88 15:35:19 GMT
References: <398@island.uu.net> <5093@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
Lines: 19

In article <5093@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>, spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) writes:
> 
> The question: why is the security mailing list dormant, and how long
> will it stay that way?
> 
> Answer: it is dormant because it grew so large that no site can be found
> where they are willing to host the mailing list -- sending out many
> hundreds of mail messages at once is quite a load on many mailers.
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	I will now exhibit my ignorance (please, no flames).  Is it possible
to send 1 mail message to another machine (like uunet) and have that machine
distribute the message to the rest of the mailing list?

	If it is, then it might be possible to support this mail list at our
site.

Jonathan Bayer
Intelligent Software Products, Inc.