Re: Insulin pumpers headers

Patty wrote:

> I would like to know, however, where Ric got his information about the
> majordomo guidelines.  I've searched the web and got some limited
> information about majordomo systems, but nothing that appeared to be
> as concise as what Ric had.  I would love to read it, granted I may
> not understand a lot of it, but I still would like to be able to more
> familiarize myself with the process.

Maybe some clarification would be useful here.  There are very many
different softwares for performing majordomo or listserv functions, and
those words are often used 'generically' -- like 'which'
listserv/majordomo software?  But, there are /actually/ 'brandname'
products, namely Majordomo and Listserv -- where Majordomo's home is
GreatCircle and LISTSERV is L-Soft's product.

Majordomo is free and open source.  L-Soft's listserv [caps] is a
commercial product.

We are assuming here [because I've seen Michael discussing Majordomo and
because the majordomo description fits with the email remote admin at
I-P] that the actual software is Majordomo, not some generic or 'other'
listserv/majordomo.

There is a brief wiki overview of Majordomo here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majordomo_%28software%29  Majordomo is an
open source mailing list manager (MLM) developed by Brent Chapman of
Great Circle Associates. It works in conjunction with sendmail on UNIX
and related operating systems.

There is a more comprehensive discussion of Majordomo at GreatCircle and
faqs and free downloads http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/  Majordomo
is a program which automates the management of Internet mailing lists.
Commands are sent to Majordomo via electronic mail to handle all aspects
of list maintenance. Once a list is set up, virtually all operations can
be performed remotely by email, requiring no intervention upon the
postmaster of the list site. (For a web-based interface to Majordomo,
see the MajorCool add-on package).  --  Majordomo controls a list of
addresses for some mail transport system (like sendmail or smail) to
handle. Majordomo itself performs no mail delivery (though it has
scripts to format and archive messages).

If you would download the free app's sourcecode and also have the
ability to de-tar and de-gzip, I'm sure all of the docs can be found in
there.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin