proposal: mailing list reorganization

[Nigel Metheringham]

On 10 Jan 2007, at 19:56, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Not to mention that one can't really easily "rename" a list.  Most  
> often it is
> close one list, open a new one, mass subscribe.  Its that last step  
> that gets
> our IS in a tiff, as mass subscribing without end user consent is  
> tatamount
> to spam, and we REALLY don't want to be a spam company.
>

Send out (Mailman) invites rather than subscribing people.  Has the  
advantage of doing a list prune at the same time, and the target  
audience ought to be up to handling the idea.

	Nigel.

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