[Mailman-Users] how to create an announce-only list / newsletter / admin-post only list

[Raquel Rice]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:17:58 +0200
Nils Vogels Nils Vogels <nivo+mailman-users at yuckfou.org> wrote:

> > > Is it in some way possible to prevent people from
> unsubscribing from such
> > > lists ?
> > 
> > luckily, no.
> 
> Could you please explain me, why it is a good thing that people
> can not
> unsubscribe from such a list ?
> 
> I can imagine cases where the administrator of the list finds it
> important
> that a message gets delivered to all the people /he/ wishes to
> explicitly
> receive the message. 
> 
> While I agree this could easily be used for UCE, imagine a list of
> people you
> want to send a christmas-postcard via email to. I'd really like
> the good
> things from mailman, such as bounce detection, archiving etc,
> while I also
> want to make sure that each of my online friends gets the digital
> postcard.
> 
> Gr,
> 
> -- 
> Nils Vogels		

If I were on your Christmas card list, I would think it terribly
arrogant for you to block me from getting off your list.  I'd block
you at the server level.

-- 
Raquel
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