Re: For the CISSPs amongst us ...

[Joel Esler <joel.esler () me com>]

On Nov 27, 2013, at 6:11 PM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 05:51:14PM -0500, Conrad Constantine wrote:
> > Apparently all the talent and funding they have available, isn't
> > enough for them to manage a simple mailing list by themselves.
>
> The same is sadly true of many organizations: some of them outsource
> to Yahoo or Google groups, both of which are extremely poorly designed
> and operated, or worse, they outsource to spammers-for-hire.  Few of
> them seem to realize that BCP is to run it yourself using Mailman
> (or majordomo) on any 'nix box you have laying around.  It's easy,
> it's cheap, it's standards-compliant, and if properly configured
> (including the MTA) it's highly resistant to abuse.

There are advantages to either I think.  I’m on both, participate on both.  I just prefer things like Mailman :)

--
Joel Esler

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