On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:08:14 -0500, Shane Geiger wrote: > A mailing list manager is really overkill for what he is trying to do > *IF* he is not maintaining a discussion list.
It's not overkill at all. Mailman is easy to install (at least on a Red Hat based Linux system, your mileage may vary elsewhere) and easy to use *and* for bonus marks it's written in Python. > A "newsletter" list > doesn't sound like a discussion list, especially since he wants to hide > the email addresses of the other people. There's more to running a mailing list than just sending emails. How do you handle archives, the invariable complaints of missing newsletters, requests for subscriptions, unsubscriptions, and temporary "I'll be on holiday for a month, don't email me until I return" requests? And even if it is not a discussion list, people expect to be able to write back to the author/editor of the newsletter. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
