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[Richard Gilbert <address@concealed>]

I am generating lists in a family for sending announcements to groups of 
users as defined by some SQL query.  Once the list is finished with I 
want to get rid of it completely, but when I run
sympa.pl --purge_list=listname
the list is not purged but put in state family_closed so still exists. 
In order to really get rid of the list I then remove entries from the 
admin_table and delete the list directory in ~sympa/expl.  This doesn't 
feel like the right thing to do.  Is there a reason why --purge_list 
doesn't really purge a family list?  wwsympa.fcgi allows lists in state 
family_closed to be purged but I want to do it from a script.

Thank you very much.

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Richard Gilbert
Corporate Information and Computing Services
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
Phone: +44 114 222 3028   Fax: +44 114 222 3040