Gordon Campbell wrote: >The question I have is this: how >does one go about subscribing several hundred users to the new list and >still maintaining most of their list preferences? (Moderated, nomail, >digest, etc.) I'm really trying to avoid having to re-set each user's >settings on setup. > >Is there some way of massaging Yahoo's "export list" function output into >something that mailman's mass subscription function understands? I can't >seem to find any documentation on this ...
I moved a 300 member list from Topica to Mailman. My job was easier because no one was moderated and I couldn't find out if delivery was on or off so all I had to deal with was real names and digest yes/no. I put the list in a spreadsheet so I coud sort on digest and break it into a digest list and a message list. The list itself created by formula in a column of the spreadsheet) looked like Real Name1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Real Name3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> etc... Then I set the default delivery mode (digest option) for new subscriptions to Digest and pasted the digest section of the list into the mass subscribe window and subscribed them. I then set the default delivery mode (digest option) for new subscribers to Regular and subscribed the non-digest group. You could do a similar thing breaking your list into 4 groups (digest yes/no X moderated yes/no). Nomail would be more of a problem, but if the nomail list is short, you could do it after the fact through the membership list, or you could do what I did and tell the list they have to do it themselves. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/