Quoting Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > One way to accomplish the ph-linux-newbie mass migration is to: > - Grab the subscriber lists for plug and ph-linux-newbie. > - Unsubscribe plug list members from ph-linux-newbie, or set them to nomail. > That way, they don't get lots of dupes. > - Subscribe ph-linux-newbie to plug. > - Set ph-linux-newbie's ack message to "This list has been merged into > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please unsubscribe from this list and join plug by > ..." > - Set everyone on ph-linux-newbie to ack. > > Pretty neat solution, you think?
This sounds doable, but I am in absolutely no position to do it. We'll have to convince Eric Rosel and his bosses (a lot of PLUGgers in there, they're taking over the world) that it's worth their executive time. ;) An alternative: 1. Grab the newbie sbuscriber list. 2. Mass subscribe them in the PLUG list. Mailman should identify and cancel out dupes. 3. Point mailman aliases for the newbie list to the PLUG counterparts. I haven't tried this of course, but it should work. I don't know what we do with the archives, though. > I volunteer to head this cell unless someone else steps up. To head what cell? Just curious. > - Should ph-linux-newbie and plug be split? Perhaps you mean "should ph-linux-newbie be collapsed and its subscribers merged into plug"? > - Should ph-linux-geek be created? While lying in bed doing my best to recuperate from this awful bug that hit me, I thought of yet another nitpick: Does "unix-geeks" sound good? I'm thinking that since it'll cater to more advanced discussions, anyway, why don't we make it open to cross-UNIX discussions? I think a number of the more experienced peole on the list administrate different unices, anyway, and there seems to be a lack of discussion area locally for the BSDs et al. Of course this will have to be approved by the board even more. There might be something in the thrust (?) of PLUG as an organization that limits itself to Linux. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : <http://jijo.free.net.ph/> Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key ID : 0x93B746BE _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
