On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 10:36:27AM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
Really? I provide mailing list services for lots of my friend's bands (and most of my own), and they only need to create a new host name in their domain, and point that at my server. I only need to answer mail and web for that host. It's easy to set up and almost effortless to administer. YMMV of course.
Because that list is limited to your friends, and is probably less than a thousand, right?
And second, let's think about this:
We add an extra option to newlist that allows us to set the listaddr at creation time.
-or-
You have the list owner change their DNS to point to you
You host their website and their domain
You provide a mechanism for them to update their web pages
You provide a mechanism for them to access their e-mail
You become a general support/ISP for said domain, even though you only agreed to host a list for them.
Ah, I see. The latter is OBVIOUSLY a much better idea!
Seriously people, if you have a single server that does everything and you want to host your friend's e-mail lists on it then yes, virtual hosting makes sense. If you are not in the business of providing support and general web hosting to the world at large for free, this is nonsense.
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