On 06/30/2015 12:56 PM, Ron Webb wrote:
I am looking to set-up a mailing list for a group of people but was hoping there is a way to have sub-lists. For example, I'd like to have one group be everyone, then another group that is regional. I was thinking of " group-all@mydomain.com" for messages covering everyone but they could send a message to "group-sacramento@mydomain.com" to and it will only go to those that are interested in "Sacramento" specific messages. I would like to make subscribers opt-in or opt-out of the regional. At this point, I have not selected a hosting service yet. I wish to bring my own domain to wherever I choose. I'm not sure if someone that just advertises that they use Mailman is sufficient or if I need to find a hosting company that provides shell access for setup is what I need. I'm sure there is some Wiki or something if this sub-lists works but I must be using the wrong search term for what I want.
Mailman can do this in a few different ways, all with standard list configuration settings available to the list owner.
One possibility is 'topics'. You could have a list with several defined topics like 'Sacramento'. You define regular expressions to be matched against the message's Subject:. These can be simple like
a Sacramento topic with a regex of 'sac' a Washington topic with a regex of 'wash'
and so on. Then, by default, a user gets all messages, but if she subscribes to the Sacramento topic and also elects to receive posts that match no topic, she will receive posts whose Subject: contains ...sac... and those whose Subject : matches none of the topic regexes (keywords), but not posts with ...wash..., etc. in the Subject:
Other ways to do this are umbrella lists and sibling lists.
See the FAQs at http://wiki.list.org/x/4030574 and http://wiki.list.org/x/4030540. Also, see http://wiki.list.org/x/8683547.
Another thing that is important for me is I do NOT want to archive or cache messages, at least for not much more than a day.
Archiving is a list option which is generally on by default, but easily turned off.
I will also wish to add some type of disclaimer that no one will probably give it much thought, but it will state that statements made are the of the sole responsibility of the author of the statement and they are not the official opinion of the corporation nor the union and the maintainer of the list does not archive messages. I'm sure I'll come up with much better wording than that but I'm sure you get the gist.
Mailman can add a header and/or a footer to each message with any text you want.
I'm just hoping I've found the right product and can receive some advice from those that have set up lists.
I think Mailman can do what you want. We are here to help.
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