Re:How to close a mailing list?

Charlie Summers <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Mar 2003 13:56:04 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.smartlist.user
Message-ID	<v0313030dba9e6cb2ca5e@[192.168.123.10]>

At 1:36 PM -0500 3/19/03, KEVIN ZEMBOWER is rumored to have typed:

> I'd like to close a mailing list and have all posters receive a message
>with a subject like "This mailing list has moved to [email protected]" and a more
>expansive explanation in the body, followed by the body of their message.

   Why use SmartList for this at all? Close down the list, and set up a
simple vacation message off of the aliases. (Or even send a 500-level error
with the error message, "This list moved to foo@bar")

   Seems to me using SmartList for this is serious overkill.

         Charlie