[Mailman-Developers] Site-wide confirmed opt in setting?

Kevan Benson kentrak at sonic.net
Fri Dec 3 22:46:48 CET 2004


On Friday 03 December 2004 01:04 pm, Robby Griffin wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2004, at 15:55, Kevan Benson wrote:
> > The main issue with this is we currently have 140 lists on the server,
> > and I'm
> > about to programmatically migrate another 600-800 lists from our aging
> > majordomo server.  So on the first of every month, for every list that
> > has
> > password reminders set to go out, any replies to these thousands of
> > messages
> > (which invariably are unsubscribe requests) go to mailman-owner, which
> > as I
> > understand it is the site admin, and shouldn't be hit with unsubscribe
> > requests for individual lists.
>
> So you're saying if Joe User is on 300 of those lists, they should
> receive 300 separate reminders from your server each month?

Hmm, that's a good point.  The reasoning behind the behavior is much more 
apparant now.  I wasn't thinking of one notice being sent for multiple list 
memberships.

Since this seems to be something more of a problem to our particular setup, 
I'll work on a custom solution (such as using an informative autoresponse).

Thanks,
-Kevan


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