Re: [Mailman-Users] merging 2 mailing lists

2015-07-07 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Tue, 07 Jul 2015 10:55:52 -0400, "Bill Cole" writes: >> ??? There's been major discussion about this on both lists, and >> everybody thinks it's a wonderful idea. Not a single objection. > >I am sorry. By way of explanation, it was late and I skimmed with tired >eyes, missing the

Re: [Mailman-Users] merging 2 mailing lists

2015-07-07 Thread Bill Cole
On 7 Jul 2015, at 7:15, Laura Creighton wrote: In a message of Tue, 07 Jul 2015 00:33:00 -0400, "Bill Cole" writes: On 6 Jul 2015, at 9:26, Laura Creighton wrote: 2 somebodies I know want to merge their mailing lists. Have they bothered asking each and every subscriber and received an affir

Re: [Mailman-Users] merging 2 mailing lists

2015-07-07 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Tue, 07 Jul 2015 00:33:00 -0400, "Bill Cole" writes: >On 6 Jul 2015, at 9:26, Laura Creighton wrote: > >> 2 somebodies I know want to merge their mailing lists. > >Have they bothered asking each and every subscriber and received an >affirmative reply? No? Imagine my shock... > >The

Re: [Mailman-Users] merging 2 mailing lists

2015-07-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Bill Cole writes: > On 6 Jul 2015, at 9:26, Laura Creighton wrote: > > > 2 somebodies I know want to merge their mailing lists. > > Have they bothered asking each and every subscriber and received an > affirmative reply? No? Imagine my shock... > > The correct answer to this is "No, you

Re: [Mailman-Users] merging 2 mailing lists

2015-07-06 Thread Bill Cole
On 6 Jul 2015, at 9:26, Laura Creighton wrote: 2 somebodies I know want to merge their mailing lists. Have they bothered asking each and every subscriber and received an affirmative reply? No? Imagine my shock... The correct answer to this is "No, you can't. You don't have subscriber permi

Re: [Mailman-Users] merging 2 mailing lists

2015-07-06 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 07/06/2015 07:25 AM, Barry S. Finkel wrote: > > I am not an expert in Mailman archives, and I do not have a machine > on which to test. I think that if you take the two mbox archive > files (probably after you have run your footer modification scripts) > and combine them into one file - then y

Re: [Mailman-Users] merging 2 mailing lists

2015-07-06 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 7/6/2015 8:26 AM, Laura Creighton wrote: 2 somebodies I know want to merge their mailing lists. They are both lists for recipes for people who have impaired kidney function. A complication is that these lists are hosted on different machines, with completely different names, etc. But picking

[Mailman-Users] merging 2 mailing lists

2015-07-06 Thread Laura Creighton
2 somebodies I know want to merge their mailing lists. They are both lists for recipes for people who have impaired kidney function. A complication is that these lists are hosted on different machines, with completely different names, etc. But picking a third name and setting things up so that po