Sibling lists and list unsubscribe headers
Hi All,
I've set up a number of announce-lists and have nearly got things how I want them except for one issue.
Here is my setup:
3 lists - parentList, siblingList1, siblingList2
siblingList1 and siblingList2 are set in regular_include_lists for parentList.
user@domain.com is in lists siblingList1 and siblingList2
Everything is working perfectly as expected except for the list unsubscribe headers which refer to parentList.
Firstly, the unsubscribe will never work because user@domain.com is not subscribed to parentList, and secondly, unless messages are sent to siblingList1 and siblingList2 (which is infrequent), the user will never be given the opportunity to unsubscribe.
Is there anything I can do to make the headers etc match a list that user@domain.com is actually subscribed to?
I have searched high and low but can't find a solution to my problem so any help/pointers would be much appreciated.
Kind Regards,
Tim
Tim wrote:
Here is my setup:
3 lists - parentList, siblingList1, siblingList2
siblingList1 and siblingList2 are set in regular_include_lists for parentList.
user@domain.com is in lists siblingList1 and siblingList2
Everything is working perfectly as expected except for the list unsubscribe headers which refer to parentList.
Firstly, the unsubscribe will never work because user@domain.com is not subscribed to parentList, and secondly, unless messages are sent to siblingList1 and siblingList2 (which is infrequent), the user will never be given the opportunity to unsubscribe.
If posts to the individual sub-lists are infrequent, you could just have a single list and let those members of only one list receive the infrequent, off-topic posts.
Is there anything I can do to make the headers etc match a list that user@domain.com is actually subscribed to?
Not with regular_include_lists used in this way.
You could set up your parent list as an umbrella list with the other lists as members, but then you have the problem of duplicate messages to people who are members of both sub-lists which is presumably what you are trying to avoid by using sibling lists.
You could consider one of the other duplicate avoidance methods from the FAQ at http://wiki.list.org/x/TIA9 (I just added a note to that FAQ about this issue).
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