[Mailman-Users] Lists of lists question...

John Lockard jlockard at umich.edu
Wed Jun 25 19:08:16 CEST 2003


Nope, that only tells me how to create an "umbrella list" but
doesn't tackle the important issue of only allowing members
of the sublists to post to the umbrella list.

-John

At 12:18 18/06/2003, Richard Barrett wrote:
> 
> At 19:58 18/06/2003, John Lockard wrote:
> > 
> > I have several lists that in best practice I'd like to
> > remain hierarchical.
> > 
> > 
> > Example:
> > 
> > staff.all    (all staff)
> > staff.pt     (PT staff)
> > staff.ft     (FT staff)
> > 
> > 
> > I would prefer to add full time staff members to the
> > staff.ft list only and part time staff members to the
> > staff.pt list only, and have staff.pt and staff.ft be
> > members of staff.all.  I would like to have all of the
> > staff lists be restricted so that only members of the
> > staff lists (staff.pt and staff.ft) be able to post to
> > any of the staff lists.
> > 
> > 
> > I would prefer to not have to add a full time staff
> > member to staff.all and staff.ft.  To allow a full time
> > staff member to post to staff.all I would like to be
> > able to just add him/her to the staff.ft list and not
> > have to add them to an "allow list" in staff.all.
> > 
> > 
> > Is there a way (or an easy way) to do this with Mailman?
> 
> The following page in the Mailman FAQ might give you some useful hints:
> 
> http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.005.htp
> 
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