+1 I've used ~mailman/bin/sync_members in several scripts for a few years now. It works great! And you can turn off the notices so folks don't know that you are mucking about with the list membership.
Good Luck - Jon Carnes ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sebastian Talmon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Warren Woodward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] remove_members without notification? > Hello Warren Woodward, > > > One of our hosted lists has ~5500 members, and > > the list admin needs to upload a whole new, audited list of addresses. > > Seeing as most of the members will be readded immediately, we'd like to > > avoid the confusion of having them all sent unsubscription notices. > > maybe sync_members (in the bin/-directory) is a good tool to try... > > I by myself had not used it till now, but the description sounds good: > > ------------------------- > > Synchronize a mailing list's membership with a flat file. > > This script is useful if you have a Mailman mailing list and a sendmail > :include: style list of addresses (also as is used in Majordomo). For every > address in the file that does not appear in the mailing list, the address is > added. For every address in the mailing list that does not appear in the > file, the address is removed. Other options control what happens when an > address is added or removed. > > ------------------------- > > > > greetings > Sebastian > > ------------------------------------------------------ > 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/jonc%40nc.rr.com ------------------------------------------------------ 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