[Mailman-Users] umbrella lists and avoiding duplicates

[Mark Sapiro]

Peter Schneider-Kamp wrote:
>
>Is there nowadays a good way of avoiding dupes, i.e., multiple posts of
>the essentially same message to one list?

Not that I know of.

>Also, I would like to have some umbrella lists. I have found an
>old thread in the archives (from April 2001) which proposes
>syncing the user lists of the umbrella list with the members
>of the sub-lists.
>
>Is this still state of the art or is there a better solution?

This is pretty much it for Mailman if you want to avoid dups for those
who are members of more than 1 sub list. See
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.005.htp
for a couple of scripts that are a little more recent than 2001.

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