Hi,

I'm about to migrate a Yahoo Groups mailing list to mailman. Yahoo Groups offers four delivery modes:

• individual emails
• daily digests
• no mail
• special announcements only

and I have list members set to all four of them. The first three I can easily deal with, but I'm not sure how to handle those set to the last.

As far as I can tell, the only difference between a Special Announcement and a regular post in Yahoo Groups is that a moderator can tick a checkbox when writing a Special Announcement on Yahoo's web UI.

I've scanned the FAQs and can't see anything obvious about this, nor can I see anything in the mailman web UI. I could just decide not to support this special announcements feature, but if I wanted to support it, what would be a good approach? The only thing I can think of would be to create a second list, mylist-announce, and subscribe everyone to that as well as mylist. But that makes user management tricky, requires new members to subscribe to both, unsubscribe from both, etc.

Have I missed something obvious? If not, is there another, simpler, work-around?

Thank you,

-- Steve