begin: Jon Carnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > This question should be in the FAQ. It is certainly in the archives enough. heh. the first thing i did was look at the FAQ. :-)
went to the archives, but to be honest, searching through 20 or 30 months for something which may not be there seemed ... harsh. now that i know it's in there, somewhere :), i'll start poking around. thank you for the info!!! pete > Umbrella list don't do what you are looking for. Look through the archives > and you will find a nice little script that does exactly what you want. The > script uses the ~mailman/bin/sync_members to move users from various other > lists into one super list. > > In your case, list out the users of vox to a file, then append the users of > vox-tech to the same file. Now feed that file into sync_members to > create/update the list vox-announce. This will populate vox-announce with > all the users of your other two lists, and Mailman will automagically toss > out any duplicate entries. > > Run the script out of cron every hour and you'll be in good shape. > > Jon Carnes > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Jay Salzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 1:15 PM > Subject: [Mailman-Users] a question about umbrella lists > > > > hi all, > > > > my linux user group runs 3 mailing lists: vox, vox-tech and vox-announce. > > > > i would like all subscribers of vox and vox-tech to also be subscribed to > > vox-announce (which only officers can post to). > > > > the trouble is, if vox-announce is an umbrella list for both vox and > > vox-announce, then people who belong to both vox and vox-tech will get two > > copies of any posts that i make to vox-announce. > > > > is there a way of suppressing these duplicate messages? > > > > some people like to subscribe only to vox, some only to vox-tech and some > to > > both vox and vox-tech. but in all of these cases, they should only > receive > > one copy of an email sent to vox-announce. > > > > can this be done with mailman? > > > > pete > > > > -- > > "You may not use the Software in connection with any site that disparages > > Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia, or their products or services ..." > > -- Clause from license for FrontPage 2002 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > -- "You may not use the Software in connection with any site that disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia, or their products or services ..." -- Clause from license for FrontPage 2002 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
