At 02:08 PM 8/4/2009, Barry Finkel wrote:
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.
This was the only response I got, and appreciated. Is this the only possible approach? I am not sure I want to subscribe people to a list they didn't subscribe to, although I am considering it. Any other approaches -- or do I have to wait to MM3 which is who knows when.
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