Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about changing the names of a list

2003-01-12 Thread John W Baxter
At 10:29 -0700 1/12/2003, Bill Hilburn wrote: >I explain some of this to them and offer to start a fresh list with the >new name > but at the expense of dropping the old list altogether (they can inform the >subscribers through the new list) > >It makes them think really hard about it and so far th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about changing the names of a list

2003-01-12 Thread Bill Hilburn
I have had customers ask to do this as well... IMHO it does not make sense to re-name a list, all of the archives will have the old address which is confusing to any current readers (think google searches) and in the end the email address for the list changes so you have to do an alias and the o

[Mailman-Users] Question about changing the names of a list

2003-01-11 Thread Janice Leong
I have a client who wishes to change the name of their list.  Is there a shorter, more efficient way of doing this than creating a new list, configuring it to the old one and then deleting the old list?   Thanks in advance. Janice Leong, Web Production Manager NetEffect Communications - w