Sounds like you will be fine! An umbrella list is meant for you. Do test it out with some test lists first. You'll need to alert the sub-lists that they may get a message that says it's to <Master List Name>, and the sub-lists will need to accept that message as though it were sent directly to the list. Beyond that, I don't think there are any other gotcha's.
Good Luck - Jon Carnes On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 11:22, Allan Trick wrote: > Hi, > > I've read in the mail archive about some problems people have had creating > umbrella lists. So I wanted to just check and make sure I'm doing this the > right way before I make a mess on my own server! > > I work at a school and I have a list of parents at each grade level for the > teachers to use. The principal now wants to send out a message to all > parents, and while he could do it by mailing each of the lists separately, > an umbrella list seems like the way he can mail just one address and all > the lists would get mailed. FAQ entry 3.5 talks about some aspects of > this, but is the basic process this: > > 1. Use ./newlist to make the umbrella list. > 2. Add new list info to /etc/aliases; run newaliases. > 3. Add as members of the list the names of the other lists that need to be > mailed when this umbrella name is sent to. > > I've read how some suggest using a script to sync members, but at this > point I don't really care if people receive duplicate messages because > they're on more than one of those sublists. > > Will there be any confusion among the users other than those duplicate > messages they may get? I don't send out password reminders. > > Thanks, > > Allan > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org