mklist is a silly little utility that helps automate the creation
of Majordomo mailing lists.  You feed it the information on the
command line, such as the list name, the password, the list owner,
and whether you want the list digested, and it creates all the
appropriate files.

By default it expects all your Majordomo stuff to live under
/usr/local/mail, but you can change those assumptions with command-line
switches as well.

Given a list-name of Foo, mklist will create the "foo" subscriber
list file, essentially-empty foo.info and foo.intro files, the
foo.config configuration file, and a foo.archive directory for
message archives.  It will also create a foo.alii file for you
to examine and add to your system's /etc/aliases (or equivalent)
file.

If you indicate that the list should be digested, mklist will create
similar files for the digest list, and also create a foo.cron file
for you to add to the Majordomo user's crontab for regular
digesting.

Obviously all of these files need to be scrutinised to make sure
no unwarranted assumptions are being made (for instance, the
cron listing causes digesting at 21H00 every night), but at
least mklist ensures that nothing gets left out.

In addition to the mklist Perl script itself, you will need the
templay-list.config and template-digest.config lists.  These
are used to build the actual Majordomo list configuration files.
It's safe -- and appropriate -- for you to modify these for
your own local defaults.

The entire mklist package is copyright 1999 by MeepZor Consulting,
and is licenced according to the MeepZor Public Licence, found
on the Web at <URL:http://MeepZor.Com/LICENCE.txt>.

If you have questions, complaints, or suggestions, send them to
<mklist-package@MeepZor.Com>.

Enjoy!  I hope this makes life at least a tiny bit simpler for you..