begin quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:01:18PM -0700: > On Apr 10, 2006, at 8:52 PM, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > > >It would be nice to receive announcements on only one list. Not four > >times if you happen to be subscribed to all of them. That's the only > >downside I see to blind automatic propagation. > > The only way I see to do that is to periodically synchronize the > membership of the -announce list with the sum contents of the other > lists. I'm not sure mailman was designed to handle such a cascading > membership logic (though it would be very nice).
Last time we did that, I got so pissed off that I unsubscribed from announce entirely. I *strongly* recommend against such an approach. Besides, auto-subscribing like that puts us firmly on the side of the spammers. The only right way to put someone on a mailing list is the double-opt-in. Opt-out lists are fundamentally wrong. If people want to subscribe to an announce list, let 'em subscribe to an announce list. If not enough people subscribe to it, well, then there obviously isn't enough interest to make it worthwhile, and the idea should be dropped, no matter how appealing it may be to a few. -- _ |\_ \|
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