| gabriel rosenkoetter on Wed, 17 Apr 2002 20:50:24 +0200 |
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On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 12:02:29PM -0400, kevin mudrick wrote: > i'd imagine one could hack up some sort of automated email responder that > could track trusted users and do this sort of thing, but is there anything > out there that exists for this type of functionality now? You might look to see if the moot folks have anything like this planned. (See http://www.m-o-o-t.org/.) moot's far from ready for prime time, but it seems like the kind of thing they'd like to have. I've thought something exactly this would be a really good idea for a while too, so if you're interested, I'd be glad to collaborate on setting something like this up. One concern is that, as the list of subscribers grows, sending one email through the list linearly more computationally intensive on the server side. Conventional single-processor servers would probably relay mail at a noticeably decreased rate with only about 25 subscribers. (Maybe one decides that this doesn't matter, but it does mean that a given subscriber would receive a given post significantly before another.) On the "uses" topic, I could see this kind of mailing list being really handy for automated notifications sent by monitoring software on a remotely hosted machine. (I'd rather not expose, say, email from my IDS. :^>) Arguably, this is something that could be as easily accomplished through SMTP-over-SSL or by connecting the relevant hosts via VPN... but that requires a little more setup on the recipient's end, is totally impossible with certain MTAs, and is less general (it'd be a hassle to add a new maintainer who received mail through another mail exchanger). -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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