David, I run an "announce only" list.
http://www.OhioCCW.org/mailman/listinfo/ccw-alert Its really easy. You tell people its announcements only, no posts, and you put it into moderated mode. I even approve the announcement posts instead of telling mailman to "let them through" to prevent someone from trying to fake the sender. I made a small hack to mailman (nobody considered it a bug, I did) so if a non-member posts to a moderated list it bounces the message into the approval queue and says "Post by a non-member" instead of "Post to a moderated list" Just because a moderated list is moderated doesn't mean you want to let non-members post, but thats not relevent to your project. Just setup your list as moderated and tell people its an announcement only list. -jeff On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 09:01:11AM -0600 or thereabouts, Parker, David K wrote: > Hmmm, the lack of response on this one leads me to assume that announce only > lists are not a feature of Mailman. Short of modifying the default welcome > message and mangling every other lists welcome message, this is not doable. > Are there any developers monitoring this list? Are there plans to add this > type of functionality in the future? It would seem reasonable that one could > alter the entire contents of a welcome message for any given list without > affecting every other list. A default welcome should still be available but > allowed to be overridden entirely for a specific list. > > I guess a workaround would be to take the unwanted verbage out of the > default welcome message then prepending appropriate text to the non announce > only lists. > > Any other thoughts on this? > > Thanks, > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: Parker, David K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 5:04 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [Mailman-Users] Announce only list > > > We are wanting to create an announce only list for upcoming events in our > City. In looking at mailman, it appears the standard welcome message can be > prepended with some text, but you cannot customize the entire message for a > specific list. We particulary want to cut out the wording about how to post > to the list, since posting will not be permitted. What are the standard > procedures for setting up an announce only list without effecting the > welcome message for every other list on the same server? I'm sure there is a > simple way that I'm overlooking. > > Thanks, > > David Parker > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe or change your options at > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jeff%40cia.net ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: archive@jab.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org