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[Philip Crandall <address@concealed>]

Could this not be done by using the busy list as a data source to a new list 
and then setting the user to nomail in that list?  If I'm not mistaken, data 
source updates only pull the reception mode for a user on the first inclusion 
(i.e. the first time it's added to the subscriber_table...the tuple is not 
touched on subsequent syncs).  Again, I could be mistaken.

Just a thought for an alternate way to accomplish what you need.

Cheers,
Philip Crandall
University of Chicago

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olivier Salaün [mailto:address@concealed]
> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 9:10 AM
> To: Carsten Aulbert
> Cc: address@concealed
> Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Is there an easy eay to temporarily disable
> one
> 
> Hi Carsten,
> 
> It sounds like an interresting feature ; we already had use cases for
> that in the past.
> No obvious way to do it with current versions of Sympa.
> 
> To implement this feature we could do something similar to the
> automatic
> lists (read
> <http://www.sympa.org/manual/list-families#automatic_list_creation>)
> where the receipient address includes some variables.
> 
> Please submit a feature request to keep track of the idea:
> https://sourcesup.cru.fr/tracker/?group_id=23
> 
> Carsten Aulbert a écrit :
> > I'm maintaining some lists with sympa where from time to time things
> like
> > birthday or wedding gifts for one of the list members is discussed.
> >
> > So far, the list owner logs into sympa's web interface and sets this
> user to
> > nomail for some time. However, this is not really a good solution for
> a busy
> > list.
> >
> > Is there an easy way to create a temporary secondary list which
> contains all
> > but one (or a few) members or most conveniently (if users understand
> the
> > design) it would be interesting if one could add this info to the
> email
> > address itself, e.g.
> >
> > original list name:
> >
> > address@concealed
> >
> > list without user address@concealed
> >
> > address@concealed
> >
> > however, this would be a challenge to make most MTA aware to that.
> >
> > Anyone with an easy approach here?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Carsten
> >