[Mailman-Users] Two questions

[Chris Waltham]

On Sep 5, 2007, at 7:52 AM, Michael Anderson wrote:

> 1. Is there a way to mass unsubscribe all the members of a 5k list?

bin/list_members $LISTNAME > your_list_members # (this will create a  
file with the members' addresses)
bin/remove_members $LISTNAME < your_list_members # (this will use the  
newly-created file to remove the addresses)

> 2. I need to send a broadcast message to about 4K addresses. Just a  
> one-time
> announcement. Should I use Mailman for this? I'm not sure how to  
> set up a
> broadcast-only list.

Have you set the list up already? You could just create a new,  
moderated list and not let anyone else post to it.


Chris