Anouncment lists, one way -----Original Message----- From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Francoise Becker Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 11:22 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: sub-lists, any good? how to? 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 > > America will never be whole as long as the right to life granted > by our Creator is denied to the unborn. -- President Ronald Reagan -- Francoise Becker What are your favorite LISTSERV(R) announcement lists? Submit nominations by December 1, 2005 for the LISTSERV Choice Awards Announcement Award http://www.lsoft.com/news/choiceawards.asp