On 12/2/2014 6:05 PM, r...@rexgoode.com wrote:
I have been a long-time user of mailman and have been on many mailing
lists.
I am also part of a professional association of social workers that
operate in my area. They have been using a list of addresses in a Cc
field to manage their mailing list. I can't imagine anything more
fraught with problems than that, but I can't convince these people to
let me host a mailman mailing list for them.
I can think of a lot of advantages myself, but I'm wondering if anyone
has seen a good list somewhere. I'm a strange combination of software
engineer and social worker, so I understand both worlds. My social
worker colleagues tend to think of something like a mailing list as
complicating things rather than simplifying them.
I'm not necessarily asking for a discussion here, but I'd like some
feedback on this.
Viva Mailman!
Rex Goode
Using a "Cc:" list has problems:
1) Someone might omit one or more addresses, and then some of the
intended recipients will not get the e-mail. And it may be a
different group, depending upon which sender omits which addresses.
2) An e-mail with too many recipient addresses might be classified as
spam by a recipient's ISP, and using a "Bcc:" list avoids this
problem but then no one knows the entire recipient list for replying.
These are the first two that come to mind, and I think that with these
two, you do not need any more reasons to avoid using a Mailman list.
And Mailman provides an archive of the postings and can control
who can post to the list.
--Barry Finkel
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