[Leaplist] Auto-subscribe announce membership -- WAS: Can kids

[Robin (Bartow FL)]

----- Original Message -----
From: Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org
To: leaplist at leap-cf.org
Sent: 3/2/08 12:08 AM
Subject: [Leaplist] Auto-subscribe announce membership -- WAS: Can kids

> I belong to several mailman lists where I get 3-4 e-mails because
> they blast all announcements to all lists, even when there is a
> dedicated announcement list.  I also see the subjects get mangled in
> responses, possibly cross-posts, etc...  Frankly, it bothers me none.
>  But it seems to bother others, and then that thread takes a life of
> its own.
> 
> I've run several mailman lists myself, as well as majordomo before
> that.  One thing I found extremely easy to script into a daily
> cronjob was a rebuild of an "announce" list's membership.  Now why
> would I want to do that?  To auto-subscribe anyone on any list in the
> group to the announcement list.
> 
> People could only join the designated announce list, as always.  But
> if they joined any list, I ensured they were also subscribed to the
> announce list.  I put this note on any subscription page for any
> other list as well.  I _never_ got a single complaint.  A few others
> would ask why they were subscribed, and often citing they never
> subscribed, but even those didn't have a problem with it.  And a most
> stated they wish other groups would do it, especially those who blast
> announcements on non-announcement lists, especially when they were on
> several.
> 
> That has always been my solution.  It's easy to do with majordomo and
> mailman, as the membership lists are nearly all flat-files.  It can
> be done with simple shell code, not even sed is necessary.  Piping
> from all other list membership files into the announce list does the
> job.  Majordomo and mailman are even smart enough to not send out
> duplicates if listed more than once in the file, although I would
> always build my list so there was only one entry per person.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bryan J. Smith       Professional, Technical Annoyance
> b.j.smith at ieee.org  http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith
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I rarely attend installfest because of the 3 hour round trip travel time.
When I have attended, it seemed as though everyone there had more technological savvy than I.

I would expect a group of this caliber to be discussing how to
use a .mobi URL to poll for dining establishments (to patronize)
before, during, or after the meeting.

If you want group publicity and attendance, build a .mobi polling
device, and share it with the public at leap-cf.org.

/robin