David Andrews <dandr...@visi.com> wrote:
>I have a problem, and don't know if there is an easy or viable
>solution. I run a bunch of lists for an organization, over 150
>lists, about 80 percent public and 20 percent private. Periodically
>there are messages that need to go to everyone, or almost
>everyone. However, people belong to multiple lists so many people
>get duplicate copies of the same message.
>
>Is there any way to send to everyone, or sub-sets of everyone? Is it
>possible to subscribe everybody to an announce-only list, at the same
>time they subscribe to their chosen list or lists? Not sure I want
>that approach, but an option if possible.
If I had to do this, I would do the following:
1) Create a new Mailman list - all-subscribers.
2) Make a list of all subscribers to all lists. I already have
a shell script (with awk files) that produces a list every hour
that contains lines:
Tue Aug 4 13:00:01 CDT 2009
----------
list1 us...@example.com
list1 us...@example.com
----------
list2 us...@example.com
list2 us...@example.com
----------
I use this file to see if a given address is subscribed to any
lists.
3) Extract the e-mail addresses from that list, pipe through "uniq",
and save the file. You could do special processing to remove
certain addresses from this file.
4) Use that file to
./sync_members -w=no -g=no -d=no -a=no -f FILENAME all-subscribers
to synchronize (silently) the membership of the all-subscribers list,
which contains all the members of all the lists.
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