5.7. Automate, automate, automate!

To prevent your list admin job from becoming onerous, you should automate as many things as possible. Make friends with cron and alias, learn to love procmail, and beg, borrow or steal a collection of scripts to help simplify administration as much as possible.

If you're spending more than half an hour a day at volunteer list administration, you haven't automated enough.

If you're letting administration tasks pile up for more than a few days at a time, you haven't automated enough.