On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 21:23:45 -0600 Patrick Hartman wrote: > Hi all, I am working with a client who needs to start doing bulk > e-mail blasts to a opt-in e-mail list. He has Mailman on his site > already, and since I have not heard of it before tonight I am trying > to do a little homework on it. > > I understand that Mailman is a discussion list tool, but was wondering > if it was possible to use it to send out e-mails from the > administrator to the subscribers only (without the users > reply/discussion aspect)? Just wondering if I am barking up the wrong > tree with Mailman and should be looking for something else to do this > for me. Thanks!
Patrick, It can be done! The usual term is "announce only list". Basically the administrator creates/maintains the list of subscribers and disables the usual "subscribe" messages for adding subscribers. Regards, David ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/
