The problem with cascading the lists is that if you have subscribers to
more than one list, they will receive multiple copies of the "announce"
mailing.
On our server, we have a perl script that reads all our lists, appends
them, takes out the multiple listings and creates a new file which is the
subscribers file of the announce-list.
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Daniel Liston wrote:
> As long as the people signing up for just a cars list are aware that
> your site is going to also send them email by virtue of joining any
> specific list... As a comparison, the majordomo-announce list does
> not automatically include me in announcements just because I belong
> to the majordomo-users list.
>
> What you are aiming to do is the first thing that would get me to
> rethink my membership in any of your lists. With that out of the
> way;
>
> Every list has a resend address and an include alias. Create a
> separate list, maybe homepage-announce, that is a moderated, post
> only list. If none of your other lists are archived or digested,
> just add the include alias for each list in the membership file
> of the homepage-annouce list. Do some experimenting with this
> idea before you put it into production. It may expose your :include:
> addresses to the recipients. If that is the case, use the resend
> address in the homepage-announce file instead, (strip -outgoing).
> The downside to this, could be a VERY heavy hit to your server all
> at once when it comes to delivering/resending all the messages.
>
> /etc/aliases
> homepage-announce: "|/path-to/majordomo/wrapper resend -l hompage-announce homepage-announce-outgoing,nobody"
> homepage-announce-outgoing: :include:/path-to/majordomo/lists/homepage-announce
>
> /path-to/majordomo/lists/homepage-announce
> carlist1-outgoing@mydomain.com
> carlist2-outgoing@mydomain.com
> carlist3-outgoing@mydomain.com
> .
> .
> .
> carlist30-outgoing@mydomain.com
>
> Dan Liston
>
> Manfred Riese wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > we have about 30 different mailing lists at our homepage (own
> > webserver), which all contain several discussionboards about, let's say
> > cars. One about chrysler voyager, another about peugeot 307, etc. Every
> > list is unmoderated, we had no need until now.
> >
> > But there is one discussionboard about the homepage itself, which should
> > be distributed to every mailing list (every car).
> > My first idea was just putting the name of the "car-lists" (list1,
> > list2, list3) into the "homepagelist", but this doesn't work.
> > I tried several ways, but none was sucessful, but that one in the
> > aliases-file:
> >
> > homepagelist: :include:/path/to/lists-dir/list1,
> > :include:/path/to/lists-dir/list2, etc.
> >
> > But i think, this isn't the luckiest way to do this, particularly when
> > the number of lists is still growing.
> > Does anyone know the ingeniously way ?
> >
> > best regards
> >
> > manfred
>
>
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