[H-GEN] Mailman

[Sarah Walters]

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On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 03:10:34PM +1000, Bradley Marshall wrote:
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> Hi Sarah,
> 
> On Thu, 16 May 2002, Sarah Walters wrote:
> > We are in the process of moving our mailing lists from majordomo to mailman,
> > and have come across a slight hiccup. From what I've been told, mailman does
> > not have support for hierarchical lists. Majordomo can :include other lists,
> > but mailman apparently does not have this capability.
> > EG all_staff consists of all_general_staff and all_academic_staff.
> 
> I don't.  But - is all_staff a strict grouping of all_general_staff
> and all_academic_staff?  Couldn't you just make an alias that
> included both?
I could, but all_general_staff consists of admin_users_all and other lists,
admin_users_all consists of ard_all and other lists and people who are just
in there, ard_all consists of ard_secretariat and other lists and a few people
who are just in there. So it would not work.

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