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Mailing Lists at the University of Birmingham List Owner's Guide What is Majordomo?

According to Collins COBUILD dictionary, a majordomo (or major-domo) is "the chief servant in charge of other servants in a large house; a rather old-fashioned word" . Majordomo is also the name given to a widely used list management package. This software is used to manage the mailing lists on the central mail server at the University of Birmingham. The name is chosen because the software can carry our various mailing list management tasks on behalf of people who own mailing lists. Majordomo was written by Brent Chapman of Great Circle Associates and is made available for use free of charge.
The software is accessible by sending email to it (majordomo@bham.ac.uk) containing requests or commands. Note that email should be sent to "majordomo" and not "majordom", as "majordom" is an alias for the "owner" of majordomo and email sent to it is forwarded to systems staff who are responsible for maintaining the email software.

Last Updated 05 November 1999. Please mail any comments to C.B.Bayliss@bham.ac.uk