On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Brian Crawford wrote:
> I have a list (WORLD-SERIES) that I would like to shut down until the 1997
> baseball playoffs start next September.  The whole premise of the list was
> that it was created only to talk about the 1996 baseball playoffs and World
> Series. It was successful and we plan to do the same thing next year.
> What I would prefer to do is keep all my current subscribers, but have the
> list "deactivated" until we need it again. Here's what I was thinking about
> doing:
>
> 1.      Set all current subscribers to nopost and nomail
 
  It would be simpler to change the header to Send= Owner, wouldn't it?
  No one but you could post to the list, but you could still send a note
  from time to time if you thought it appropriate.  Do you have RENEW= in
  your header?  If so, what is the renew period?  If it is less than the
  "innactive" period you could have a lot of people dumped from the list.
 
> 2.      Change the list to *Subscribe= by owner
    Why?
> 3.      Change the default subscription options to nopost and nomail
   See suggestions for "1."
> 4.      Change the Welcome file to explain the situation
    That would be a good idea.
 
Just some quick thoughts.
 
Douglas
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