Maybe topics would make more sense in your context.

Are these announcement lists or discussion lists?

Francoise

On 21 Nov 2005 at 9:18, Patrick B. O'Brien <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> This is all great!
> 
> So,
> 
> Let's say I build one Super-List containing 3 sub-lists. 
> 
> I only want to send an email to 2 of the 3 sub-lists which could contain
> duplicate emails in these 2 sub-lists. 
> 
> How can I get around that?
> 
> Thank you listserv Admins. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of James Morrill
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 2:18 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: sub-lists, any good? how to?
> 
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Patrick B. O'Brien wrote:
> 
> > Are sub-lists beneficial to anyone out there?
> 
> Oh my goodness, yes!  We have a bunch of lists for different admin
> groups (network admins, OS admins, desktops support people, college and
> department level support people, etc., etc. etc.) all over campus.
> Then we have a list where all these admins lists  are added as
> sublists.  When we have something everyone needs to know about we just
> send it to the one list and we know everyone will get it (we won't
> forget some group) and everyone just gets one copy (they really like
> that! :-).
> 
> We also use sublists to add our group (the Enterprise Server
> Technologies group) to various other lists so when our staff changes we
> only have to change our one list instead of the 30-40 other lists for
> groups that we support.
> 
> > Any quick, how too, notes on it?
> 
> add:
> 
>    Sub-Lists= list1,list2,...,listN
> 
> to the header of each list you want to add sublists to.
> 
> > I know the listserver manuals have stuff in them about this topic.
> 
> They do.
> 
> --
>  James Morrill  office: HL 11, 785-532-4909
> www-personal.ksu.edu/~james
> 
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Francoise Becker

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