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["Gavin Younger" <address@concealed>]

>Hi Gavin,

Thanks Olivier, that's useful... 

>List family instanciation is currently only available via the 
>command line, as a bulk process. You provide a set of data and 
>a family definition and sympa.pl instanciates the family to 
>create all the lists.
>
>We have planned to extend the family features and allow list 
>creation from the web interface and also from the mail 
>interface (to create one-time lists), but nothing has been coded yet.

One of my main drivers behind the use of families (apart from the bulk 
processing as you mention - we have about 1700 lists to migrate! ;-> ) was 
the ability to provide constraints on the parameter values (using 
param_constraint.conf) since we need to constrain the set of available 
settings on some of the parameters... 

I can achieve a similar effect (I assume) by removing the unwanted scenario 
settings from the site-wide scenario directory (/home/sympa/bin/etc/scenari) 
- but I'm aware that I'd need to keep on top of this if we upgraded the 
system to make sure they weren't re-written back... 

What would be useful is the param_constraint.conf functionality but in a 
non-family context (at either list/robot/site level). I'll add a feature 
request on the tracking system... 

Cheers,

Gavin Younger,
Unix Systems Group,
Information Systems & Services,
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK