[Mailman-Users] Re: Question on outputting all lists and list owners and a process for batch disabling of lists without an owner

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...which I found googling ‘how to disable a mailman 2 list’ because I’d like to know how, too, since we do occasionally have need to do this.)

The method in that thread is simply moving the lists/<listname> aside. That is one way to disable a list, but there are others depending on what you actually want. ...

To disable a list:

chmod 000 $PATH/lists/<LISTNAME>

And to re-enable it:

chmod 2775 $PATH/lists/<LISTNAME>