Many administrators will
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immediately unsubscribe the offender. Some administrators must find other solutions,
because members may have to pay to subscribe.
Find out what your rights are as an administrator before you accept the job or before
you set up the mailing list. Make certain you can remove offending subscribers in a
timely manner to protect the remainder of your subscriber base.
As a courtesy to your remaining subscribers, you should let them know that you handled
a certain problem and that the offending subscriber won??™t post to the list again.
13.7 Packages That Help
As the number and size of mailing lists at your site become large, you might wish to
install a software package that automates list management. We show four of the
more mature packages here. Many other packages exist (some good, many immature),
and you can find them by searching the Web.
13.7.1 Majordomo
The Majordomo mailing-list management software was originally written by Brent
Chapman using the perl(1) language. Its chief features are that it allows users to subscribe
to and remove themselves from lists without list manager intervention and
that it allows list managers to manage lists remotely. In addition, users can obtain
help and list descriptions with simple mail requests.
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