At 02:22 PM 8/15/99 -0400, you wrote:
At the beginning of each year, we do a massive creation of new accounts for students. (Well, not THAT massive but a few hundred anyway) Currently with PMDF listserv our addstudent script on the unix host that holds the student accounts fires off a "subscribe class-of-2001" message to the list server and the student is added.
Mailman has that feature but requires a confirmation of the student before the subscription is added. While most would argue that this is
Well, you could do a couple of things here...
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).
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".
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)
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.