Re: How to broadcast to all lists?
Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
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David I. Bell <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm looking for some advice on the best way to set up a > "broadcast to all" mechanism with my Ezmlm-Idx lists. One easy way is to bypass most of the list functionality and feed your message directly to ezmlm-send, once for each list directory. See the ezmlm-send documentation for details. A possible downside is that people subscribed to multiple lists will receive multiple copies of the message. > Assumptions: > * Subscribers don't get choose NOT to get the principal's messages > * There exists a list people can subscribe to so they can get the > principal's messages even if they are not subscribed to one of > the other lists on the system With this second assumption, it becomes easier to create a separate list for these announcements. People not subscribed to the other lists can subscribe to it at will. You can disable the un-subscription functionality to prevent people from leaving the list. Then before you send a message to this list, you just feed the subscriber lists of all the other lists to ezmlm-sub for this list -- if they're already subscribed, nothing happens, otherwise they get added. Everybody on the list only gets one of the announce messages. Charles -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> GPL'ed software available at: http://pyropus.ca/software/ My services include ezmlm consulting. See http://pyropus.ca/ for details. -------------------------------------------------------------------------