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[Mark Sapiro]

Mike Phillips wrote:

>That seems simple enough. I read article 3.5, and it offers a script to
>solve a problem. Are they talking about the duplicate message problem (when
>one person is on multiple lists feed from the umbrella list?)

Yes, that is the problem the script is designed to solve.

>What if someone tries to subscribe to the umbrella list. How do I preclude
>them from being able to do so?

Go to the Privacy options...->Subscription rules for the list and set
subscribe_policy to Require approval.

>Thanks for your assistance. Obviously I'm not very experienced with MailMan.

It would help if you would go through all the admin pages for a list
just to see what's there and also to read the FAQ index.
 
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