Re: : Mailman Help

Marcelo Cavalcante <[email protected]> Sun, 3 Aug 2014 22:24:27 -0300

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2014-08-03 20:01 GMT-03:00 Scott Allen <[email protected]>:

>
> Does mailman send a "welcome" message when you subscribe to a list? If
> so, why not just include something similar to this in the discussion
> list's welcome message:
>
> We suggest that you also subscribe to the announce list. It's used to
> blah, blah blah. Traffic is quite low.
> If you would like to join the announce list, go to http://.....
>
> Yes Scott,

In Mailman you'll have a “Send welcome message to newly subscribed
members?” option on Mailman’s “General Options”. That could do the trick
for your idea.