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<font size=3>At 02:22 PM 8/15/99 -0400, you wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type=cite cite>At the beginning of each year, we do a massive
creation of new accounts<br>
for students. (Well, not THAT massive but a few hundred anyway)<br>
Currently with PMDF listserv our addstudent script on the unix host
that<br>
holds the student accounts fires off a "subscribe
class-of-2001" message<br>
to the list server and the student is added.<br>
<br>
Mailman has that feature but requires a confirmation of the student<br>
before the subscription is added. While most would argue that this
is</blockquote><br>
Well, you could do a couple of things here...<br>
<br>
o Build a script during user generation, which is fed to add_members
later. (Probably much more efficient and scalable, and with
judicious use of ssh could be automated).<br>
<br>
o At the begining of the semester go into the lists and make approve, but
not confirm. Then just batch approve everyone by clicking
"subscribe all users".<br>
<br>
o Go into mm_cfg.py, and set ALLOW_OPEN_SUBSCRIBE = 1, which should
enable the "open list" subscription option, then set your lists
to "none" temporarily. (In the admin "privacy"
area)<br>
<br>
I'd recommend switching them *back* from type 0 (open) to type 1
(confirm) or higher, and disabling ALLOW_OPEN_SUBSCRIBE again later,
because you really don't want everyone being able to subscribe people
willy nilly.<br>
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