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[Thomas Berry <address@concealed>]

Having recently switched from Lyris to Sympa [for its LDAP support], 
this is a Lyris feature that we miss.

Thomas

Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Someone just asked me if I could set up a group of 7 lists for them, 
> with an interesting property: the lists have overlapping membership, and 
> they'd like to set things up so that a message sent to multiple lists 
> doesn't show up multiple times, if someone is on more than one of the 
> lists. (Think sports teams - a parent has kids on more than one team - 
> an announcement about field use goes out to parents of kids on 3 of the 
> teams.)
>
> To be more concrete:
> - 7 lists, a-g
> - John is on lists a, c, e
> - a message is sent to lists a, b, c
> - is there a way to set things up so John only gets one copy, instead of 2?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Miles