Alan McConnell wrote: > I have an idea, but not the Mailman/Python skills to implement > it. It is as follows: >Every month, create(automatically if possible) a new temporary mailman >E-list(*). Copy(automatically if possible) the members -- and data -- >of the members to be reminded -- to this new temporary List. Blast out >the warning.(Blast out a second time if deemed necessary). Destroy >this temporary List. >(*) If the regular List is called AbracaDabra, the new temporary >List can be called AbracaDabra-Remind, thus alerting AbracaDabra >members that here is an E-mail related to AbracaDabra, and should >be paid attention to. > > Is there anything in the above suggestion that is impossible? > If not, how much effort -- Python writing, etc -- would be > needed? It would seem to me that such a capability would be > very useful for all kinds of groups and a multitude of purposes.
I would do the following: Create an announcement list named AbracaDabra-Remind following the guidelines in the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/3YA9>. This list will be permanent, but its membership will change. It should probably have Privacy options... -> Subscription rules -> advertised = No and Archiving Options -> archive = No. Then, using your membership data, create a list of the email addresses that you want to mail to and use that as input to Mailman's bin/sync_members (with options --welcome-msg=no, --goodbye-msg=no and --notifyadmin=no) and post your reminder. This could all be done automatically in a cron job, perhaps using bin/inject to make the post. Whether this is easy or hard depends on your membership database. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
