here's a way to hack this:
1. setup the 'announce' list but leave its subscriber file empty.
2. when you want to send msg to several lists, use a command like:
cat sublists* | sort -u > announce
3. then send the msg to the 'announce' list.
depending on your needs, you might wanna delete this file or you
might wanna run the script in crontab every nite ...
>From: "Mats Wichmann (mipsABI Consultant)" <mats@questa.esd.sgi.com>
>Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 11:27:07 -0800
>To: majordomo-users@GreatCircle.COM
>Subject: multiple related lists, one copy?
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
>YAUR (Yet Another Unreasonable Request):
>
>I'm involved with a committee that has a number of subcommittees and
>working groups. There are mailing lists reflecting the activites and
>discussions of these groups.
>
>Occasionally, it's necessary to get out information to everybody, but
>there's no single list that everybody is subscribed to. More
>frequently, there are messages which need to go out to a couple of
>groups because it affects them both. Mailing to all the lists means
>some folks who are subscribed to lots of the lists get four, five
>copies of the same thing and there have been many objections to this.
>
>Can anyone think of a clever way to set things up so that duplications
>are removed? Since the actual distribution lists are expanded by
>the mailer (sendmail in our case), once it gets to that point it's
>out of majordomo's control. I guess adding an "announce"-type
>list with everybody subscribed would solve the send-to-all problem.
>
>Anyway, I'm sure our problem isn't unique, so I'm soliciting suggestions.
>
>
>-- mats
>
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