list.domain
Cc: bob@a.domain, ben@another.domain, bill@yet.another.domain,
carrie@somewhere.gov, jose@there.domain, ...
etc. for hundreds of addresses
There are two serious problems with this approach. First, it reveals all the members
of the list to every recipient on the list. This violates the privacy of each recipient on
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the list. Most who join an organization, or mailing list, expect that their membership
will be private and not advertised to others.
Second, messages with too many header recipients (typically more than 25 or so) are
consider spam email by many sites. Mailing list messages are not spam email and
therefore should never appear to be.
See ?§13.1 on page 485 to learn the correct way to set up mailing lists using sendmail.
13.6.4 Let Software Do the Job for You
As mailing lists become large, or emailings to them become frequent, lists eventually
need to be moved from self-serviced lists to fully automated lists. Three classes of
software are available for this transition. Open source software for Unix is mature
and well written. Commercial software for Unix and Windows is widely available.
Commercial services (some free withadvertising included in eachmessage) are also
available.
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