You are right Ben,

I glanced at the paragraph while looking for something else earlier that
morning. Should have glanced harder!

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> ----------
> From:         Ben Chi
> Sent:         Wednesday, 29 April 1998 12:24
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: [LSTSRV-L] Sending a message to every one even NOMAIL
>
> On Tue, 28 Apr 1998 12:03:13 [log in to unmask] said (apropos
> the question "Is there a way for the listowner to send a message to ALL
> subscribers, even those set NOMAIL?"):
>
> >If you set up a superlist with the list in question defined as a sublist
> >messages sent to the superlist will go to all members regardless of the
> >NOMAIL setting.
> >
> >See chapter 2.13.8 of the List owners manual r2
>
> That's a neat solution, except for the fact that this is not what section
> 2.13.8 says.  Quoting from there:
>
>     You will get the [message sent to the superlist] if you have an
>     active (not NOMAIL) subscription to at least one sub-list.  The
>     idea is that the super-message must be equivalent to posting to
>     all the sub-lists, without the duplicates.  Since all it takes
>     to get a message posted to all the sub-lists is a single
>     non-NOMAIL subscription, this is how the super-list works.
>
> My solution to this problem is to use REVIEW FOO-L to prepare a list of
> recipients and than let LISTSERV do a DISTRIBUTE job of my message to
> this list.
>                                              /b
>