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["John R Levine" <address@concealed>]

> > 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.

Sounds like just what I want.  I realize it'll be different for 6.2 but 
could I have a copy to see generally what you did?

> 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

I'll take a crack at making it work with 6.2.6.  Any suggestions about 
what's likely to break?

Regards,
John Levine, address@concealed, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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