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From: rdg@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Rob Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: setting up a mailing list on a HP 9000/835
Message-ID: <1080104@hpfcmgw.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Dec 89 21:36:48 GMT
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Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
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> I have a problem trying to set up a mailing list on an HP9000/835,
> here's what I'm trying to do:
> 
> in the /usr/lib/aliases file, I add some lines like:
> 
> music-gods: :include:/users/joe/maillists/music-gods
> music-gods-owner: music-gods-request
> music-gods-request: joe
> 
> and in the file /users/joe/maillists/music-gods, an everchanging list of 
> subscribers to the list.  The question is, why am I getting errors to this
> alias, and how can I do this, short of setting up a dummy account with a 
> .forward file.

What errors do you get? I assume that your mailing list file is
readable and in a searchable directory, and that you've run
'newaliases'.

Rob