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[Steve Shipway <address@concealed>]

>It would be really nice if I could import the users along with some of
>their settings such as digest and nomail.  I can export stuff from mj2 and
>reformat it however I need.  How do you add subscribers with settings?

We did this by coding something up in Perl that simply inserted the 
appropriate records straight into the subscribers table of the database.

>Bonus question: is there a reasonable way to make a list mostly
>unmoderated?  On some lists a few subscribers have messages manually
>reviewed, while the rest can post directly

We've done this by creating an add-on that gives you a Whitelist and a 
Modlist as well as a Blacklist.  This works for Sympa 6.1.23+ (haven't 
migrated it to Sympa 6.2 yet).  This lets you set a list to subscribers-only, 
and then add individuals to the Modlist.

The way it is done is simple; you create a modlist.txt in the search_filters, 
then use scenari/send.include.header to prepend a test that checks for 
members of the modlist, and gives a moderate response if so.

Example stuff: http://www.steveshipway.org/software/f_sympa.html

Steve

Steve Shipway
University of Auckland ITS
UNIX Systems Design Lead
address@concealed
Ph: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86487