Re: [Mailman-Users] closely related lists - using users from a different lists

2005-07-11 Thread John Hicks
David Cake wrote:
   I have two lists that are effectively low and high traffic
  lists designed to serve the same constituency. So that a large number
  of people do not need to be subscribed to announcements that go out
  on the low traffic list, the high traffic list is also subscribed to
  the low traffic list.
   The only problem is that this means almost no one is
  subscribed to the low traffic list, and virtually none of the people
  who might post to it are, so almost every message is moderated.
   Is there a way to allow people who are subscribed to a second
  list to be accepted as subscribers to the first?
   Cheers
   David

(Warning: I'm a novice. I'm replying only because I see your query has
not been answered after five days.)

You can subscribe the members of the larger list to the smaller list:

First export the subscribers using the list_members command from the
server command line:

/usr/lib/mailman/bin/list_members  your-list-name  
filename-for-member-list

Then import those addresses into the smaller list. I believe there are
two ways to do this:

--You can use the mass subscribe feature of the smaller list to import
the addresses. Paste the exported addresses into the mass subscribe
page on the admin web interface. Any duplicates will be ignored. This
method allows you the option of sending invitations rather than
arbitrarily subscribing them (based on your current setting in the admin
interface). If you send invitations, your invitees get the option of
choosing between regular and digest subscriptions.

--You could also use the add_members command from the server command
line. I believe this arbitrarily subscribes them without the option of
invitations:

/usr/lib/mailman/bin/add_members  -r filename-for-member-list your-list-name

The -r subscribes them as regular members -d as digest members.

Hope that helps.

John Hicks




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[Mailman-Users] closely related lists - using users from a different lists

2005-07-05 Thread David Cake
I have two lists that are effectively low and high traffic 
lists designed to serve the same constituency. So that a large number 
of people do not need to be subscribed to announcements that go out 
on the low traffic list, the high traffic list is also subscribed to 
the low traffic list.
The only problem is that this means almost no one is 
subscribed to the low traffic list, and virtually none of the people 
who might post to it are, so almost every message is moderated.
Is there a way to allow people who are subscribed to a second 
list to be accepted as subscribers to the first?
Cheers
David
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