Richard Barrett wrote: > >On 24 Sep 2004, at 16:08, Chris Barnes wrote: > >> I have a question about umbrella lists. >> >> I understand the concept (and use them on my Lsoft Listserv lists). >> But >> what I am unsure about is how they are implemented in MM. >> >> Please correct my thinking here. >> If you have an umbrella list, it has a group of sublists to which it >> will re-distribute its messages, right? Then it should do these 2 >> things: >> >> a) make sure that a person that is subscribed to multiple sublists only >> gets 1 copy of the message >> >> b) use it's own Subjectprefix (pre-empting the subject prefix of the >> sublists) >> >> >> The problem I have is that this is not what is happening. Our umbrella >> list is basically acting like the sublists are simple subscribers - >> meaning neither (a) nor (b) above is occurring. >> >> > >Unfortunately you are saying what you think umbrella lists should do, >not understanding what MM does do with them, which is not very much. > >What Mailman does is described in the help for the umbrella_list and >umbrella_member_suffix list attributes on the General Options page of >the Mailman admin web GUI. > >If you want more then you will have to wait for Mailman's volunteer >developers to do it or become one and do it yourself. >
But see FAQ article at http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.005.htp for a possible work-around. -- 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/
