[Mailman-Users] a question about umbrella lists

[J C Lawrence]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:15:34 -0800 
Peter Jay Salzman <p at dirac.org> wrote:

> some people like to subscribe only to vox, some only to vox-tech
> and some to both vox and vox-tech.  but in all of these cases,
> they should only receive one copy of an email sent to
> vox-announce.

You are missing the other case:  The people who are subscribe to vox
and vox-tech and explicitly want/demand to get two copies of
messages sent to vox-announce (one each for vox and vox-tech).
While I'm not subscribed to your lists, I do demand such from the
lists I'm on.

> can this be done with mailman?

Currently, no.

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J C Lawrence
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