IMO, the reason mailing list managers tend to be fairly complicated is that they're trying to deal with a non-trivial problem. Personally, I try to do as little as possible managing email because of earlier experiences that gave me a peek of how horrible the problems could get. When mailing list managers screw up (normally because of misconfiguration), they can do so in a spectacularly bad manner, creating an infinite mirror of bounces or worse. Lots of potential for angering many people at once.

So I'd install Mailman (which seems to be pretty well respected) and see how it goes. Plus, you might get to pick up some Python along the way and see how good you have it in Perl :-)

Chris
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In reply to Re: Making an Opt-in Mailing List by lachoy
in thread Making an Opt-in Mailing List by jerrygarciuh

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