I found this interesting, not least because I have been guilty of 
sloppy thinking about "mailing lists". I thought I wanted majordomo or 
maybe I could use yahoo groups or some such .. but I have just now 
realized that all I really wanted was a "broadcast" mechanism .. one 
way .. from me to my clients. Not a "discussion" list.

So, is BCC really the answer?. I guess if I have my client list on my 
PC, not on the server, I could broadcast just by pasting that list into 
BCC. At the back of my mind though there is a niggle that this is 
maybe OK for small numbers of clients (my current situation, sigh) 
but BCC must have some limitations and ultimately it is going to get 
ugly. I'd rather my 'client' list (which includes anyone who has 
registered an interest) was maintained server side (PHP and 
mySQL), so it seems to me that some server side PHP might be a 
better way of doing a broadcast. Unfortunately I don't as yet know 
much about how PHP works with mail, how to access sendmail on 
my host server ...

But thanks for the clarification, it has started me thinking.

 

On 12 Oct 2001, at 14:00, BENJAMIN  KIM WAKELY wrote:

> >I maintain a web site for a law firm, and they are interested in
> >having their monthly newsletter done via a list serv, or something
> >like that, and then having links back to the articles on the web
> >site.  I'm having trouble 
> 
> Assumption: they have their articles on the website to be linked to.
> 
> Why not just have an account that mails out the newsletter, and
> incorporate the links into the email?  You can BCC (blind carbon copy)
> the newsletter to all the individual recipients, so they don't see
> each other's email addresses.
> 
> List servers are typically specifically for users to be able to mail a
> central forum and have their comments distributed to everyone on the
> list, so if your clients don't want that, my guess is that they're
> confused about the meaning of the term 'listserv' :)
> 
> On the other hand, if that _is_ what they want, then I'd suggest
> "mailman" ( http://gnu.uklinux.net/software/mailman/index.html ) for
> no other reason than I've seen friends use it.  I don't run a listserv
> myself, so I can't testify to it's relative worth...
> 
> -Benji Wakely
> 
> 

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