If I may, I moved 6 lists off Smartlist to Mailman, and no one knew the difference
(one list has 4600+ members) I copied the dlist and did a mass subscription and flagged the system to not invite and no notice and vola done Painless yes.. Dave -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen J. Turnbull Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 05:30 To: heathcliff Cc: [email protected] Subject: [Mailman-Users] Getting users off old listserv heathcliff writes: > We are all set to migrate our user community to Mailman, but we are > at an impasse as to the most painless way to do this. It is not > enough to just inform them of the cut off date and send them a few > lines of instructions or guides ahead of time. Has anyone come > across or devised a painless way to wean them off of the old > listserv? I have been checking around in the archives, but to no > avail. Er, what do you mean by "user community"? The subscribers, or the list admins? And what do you mean by "pain"? It should be transparent to the subscribers, until they want to unsubscribe. For the list admins, they need to know how to print out a list of subscriptions from the old listserv in the form: "Full Name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and paste them into the mass subscription window in the subscriber maintenance form in the Mailman admin interface. The Mailman side is almost trivial unless you've got hundreds of subscribers or scores of lists. ------------------------------------------------------ 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/dave%40hamnet.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp ------------------------------------------------------ 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
