Re: [svlug-announce] (forw) Re: [volunteers] Resubscribing to the SVLUG List

Quoting Ivan Sergio Borgonovo ([email protected]):

> I saw very few traffic on the list recently, you've lost a stable venue 
> for the meetings/speech and I'm not local.
> I'm not a sysadmin and delegating stuff requires trust, still I've spent 
> more than half my life being paid for programming, so if I can share 
> some of the load, let me know.

FYI, I deleted and rebuilt the membership roster for the svlug@ (main)
mailing list, just before sending out the November meeting announcement
to [email protected] .

Outline of the work:

bin/list_members -r -f -o /tmp/svlug-regular svlug
bin/list_members -d -f -o /tmp/svlug-digest svlug
  [separate out svlug-regular-plain and svlug-digest-plain from
  svlug-regular and svlug-digest]
bin/remove_members -n -N -a svlug
bin/list_members svlug
  [verify empty]
bin/add_members -w n -r /tmp/svlug-regular-plain svlug
bin/add_members -w n -d /tmp/svlug-digest-plain svlug
  [pause for manual work]
bin/add_members -w n -r /tmp/svlug-regular svlug
bin/add_members -w n -d /tmp/svlug-digest svlug
  [manual work]

'bin' is relative to MAILMAN_HOME, thus /var/local/mailman/bin/ .

The manual work is to, first, capture into a text file which subscribers
have user-desired, non-default subscription attributes HIDE, PLAIN, ACK,
NOT METOO, (absence of) NODUPES.  Then, after deletion of the entire
roster and reloading of the regular and digest users, manually re-adding
those manually documented other attributes to users wanting them.

I have reasonable confidence that _everyone_ will have (correctly) seen
the announcement of the November 2nd meeting.  (Note:  The svlug@
mailing list is a subscribed member of the svlug-announce mailing list,
so svlug@ subscribers receive svlug-announce's posts without needing to
subscribe to the announce list.)