How to set up a mail list (reflector)?

[Guangliang He]

In article <3901 at amelia.nas.nasa.gov> samlb at pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Sam Bassett RCD) writes:
> 
> 	On our Ultrix 3.0 system, I edit '/etc/aliases' (do a 'man
> aliases' to find where it is on your system), to create an alias for the
> mailer:
> 
> aiforum: amesboards,otherboards,AIlist at stripe.sri.com,
>    andrews%ear at ames-io.arpa,system%mar at ames-io.arpa,falsetti at orion,
>    wolski%gaia at ames,clerma%ear at ames-io.arpa,pjd at hydra,
> 
> for instance.
> 
> 	After finishing the edit, I run 'newaliases' to make sure that
> the system knows about the new alias.
> 

The aliases file is /usr/lib/aliases on the BSD4.3 and SYS V. A better way
to do it is to use 'include'. Put a line like following into the aliases
file.

list : :include:/u/whoever/whateverfile

This way, you only need to run 'newaliases' once, next time you want add a
usr on to the list, you only need to exit the /u/whoever/whateverfile. You
don't have to run 'newaliases' any more.

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