On 2/19/22 01:48, linux--- via Mailman-Users wrote:
I run a small club with about 50 members. All the club mailing lists are
private. Everyone is in the memb...@domain.name list, and there are two other
smaller lists containing subsets of the membership, eg ad...@domain.name,
maintena...@domain.name. When a message is sent to both ad...@domain.name and
memb...@domain.name, recipients get both copies of the message.
Would it be better to remove individuals who are in the ad...@domain.name list
from the memb...@domain.name list, and then add @admin as a member of the
memb...@domain.name list. Does this make memb...@domain.name an 'umbrella' list?
First, you wouldn't add @admin as a member of memb...@domain.name. If
you wanted to do this, you would add ad...@domain.name as a member of
the memb...@domain.name list. The @listname syntax is only for things
like subscribe_auto_approval and *_these_nonmembers. But then members
removed from the smaller lists because they are also members of the
larger list would not receive posts addressed only to a smaller list.
That said, there is a better way to do this.
add ad...@domain.name and maintena...@domain.name to
regular_exclude_lists on the memb...@domain.name list. Then when a post
is addressed to say memb...@domain.name and ad...@domain.name, members
of ad...@domain.name will be excluded from delivery from the
memb...@domain.name list and will receive only one copy from the
ad...@domain.name list.
How you set regular_exclude_ignore on the memb...@domain.name list
depends on how the smaller lists treat nonmember posts. This is to
address the situation where a nonmember of say ad...@domain.name posts
to memb...@domain.name and ad...@domain.name, perhaps by reply-all to a
post that addressed both lists. If that post to the ad...@domain.name
list will ultimately be rejected or discarded, set
regular_exclude_ignore on the memb...@domain.name list to Yes, but if it
will ultimately be accepted for the ad...@domain.name list set
regular_exclude_ignore on the memb...@domain.name list to No.
--
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San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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