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[Jeff Abbott <address@concealed>]

Ferdinand Goldmann wrote:

> However, several of our users make use of Listserv's feature to have
> sub-lists under an umbrella list, so that a mail sent to the umbrella list
> will reach all sub-lists. Is there any corresponding feature in
> Sympa?

There sure is.  Sympa implements such a feature by allowing you to 
include lists in other lists.  For instance, we've got two lists here at 
Duke -- all staff and all faculties -- and we've created a third list 
for all employees that includes the other two.  And those two lists are 
controlled by LDAP queries, so that when someone new joins Duke as an 
employee, their directory entry is created and they automatically appear 
on the corresponding lists.

There's some documentation on how the feature works at:

  http://sympa.org/wiki/manual/parameters-data-sources#include_list

Hope that helps,
Jeff