[Mailman-Users] Duplicate Messages
David Andrews
dandrews at visi.com
Sun Aug 9 19:28:51 CEST 2009
At 02:08 PM 8/4/2009, Barry Finkel wrote:
>David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:
>
> >I have a problem, and don't know if there is an easy or viable
> >solution. I run a bunch of lists for an organization, over 150
> >lists, about 80 percent public and 20 percent private. Periodically
> >there are messages that need to go to everyone, or almost
> >everyone. However, people belong to multiple lists so many people
> >get duplicate copies of the same message.
> >
> >Is there any way to send to everyone, or sub-sets of everyone? Is it
> >possible to subscribe everybody to an announce-only list, at the same
> >time they subscribe to their chosen list or lists? Not sure I want
> >that approach, but an option if possible.
>
>If I had to do this, I would do the following:
>
>1) Create a new Mailman list - all-subscribers.
>
>2) Make a list of all subscribers to all lists. I already have
> a shell script (with awk files) that produces a list every hour
> that contains lines:
>
> Tue Aug 4 13:00:01 CDT 2009
> ----------
> list1 user1 at example.com
> list1 user2 at example.com
> ----------
> list2 user1 at example.com
> list2 user3 at example.com
> ----------
>
> I use this file to see if a given address is subscribed to any
> lists.
>
>3) Extract the e-mail addresses from that list, pipe through "uniq",
> and save the file. You could do special processing to remove
> certain addresses from this file.
>
>4) Use that file to
>
> ./sync_members -w=no -g=no -d=no -a=no -f FILENAME all-subscribers
>
> to synchronize (silently) the membership of the all-subscribers list,
> which contains all the members of all the lists.
This was the only response I got, and appreciated. Is this the only
possible approach? I am not sure I want to subscribe people to a
list they didn't subscribe to, although I am considering it. Any
other approaches -- or do I have to wait to MM3 which is who knows when.
Dave
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