[Mailman-Users] merging 2 mailing lists

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Bill Cole writes:
 > On 6 Jul 2015, at 9:26, Laura Creighton wrote:
 > 
 > > 2 somebodies I know want to merge their mailing lists.
 > 
 > Have they bothered asking each and every subscriber and received an 
 > affirmative reply? No? Imagine my shock...
 > 
 > The correct answer to this is "No, you can't. You don't have subscriber 
 > permission to do so."

That's one correct answer.  But if the original lists are
open-subscription, open-archive, I really don't see a need for
permission.  The listmasters are just doing automatically and
efficiently what anybody could do by hand (or by 'bot).