A disclaimer: I realize our implementation is not at all what was intended for "typical" Mailman usage, but ...
We have lists where: * the subscribers don't know their individual passwords for Web access * the subscribers don't have Web access to Mailman subscription features * we (the admins) manually control whether subscribers get to use digest mode, based on their e-mail requests The lists are set up this way because this is the main "campus-wide alert/announcement system" for e-mail, so we want to guarantee that everyone is SUPPOSED to get every message sent to these lists. OK, so here's the kicker. Based on a somewhat transient user population (we regularly lose and add a small fraction of students, and sometimes even employees), we've developed an external script to regularly cross-check the current subscriber list and then update it with subscriber additions and removals as necessary. Unfortunately, when the lists are "refreshed," all individual subscriber parameters (like digest mode) are wiped out to their defaults. So my question is: Is there some sort of flag associated with each subscriber entry that indicates digest usage, that we should be sure not to touch during the list refresh? Or, to put it more broadly, how would you suggest doing backend (non-subscriber) list maintenance that doesn't impact individual subscriber preferences? Thanks, Jason _________________________ Jason LaMar Interim Director of Information Services Libraries and Information Services Ohio Wesleyan University; Delaware, OH 43015 Tel: 740-368-3131, Fax: 740-368-3272, Web: http://www.owu.edu/ ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
