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[Robert McNicholas <address@concealed>]

Hi,

I think this might work properly if you use "data sources" to "include" 
the child list(s) in the parent list.  It will definitely remove the 
duplicates, and the childlist won't be considered a subscriber so you 
won't have the problem with the childlist address receiving subscriber 
messages.

Newer versions of sympa even handle unsubscribing from a parent list 
when the address is included from a childlist by maintaining an 
'exclude' list.

Hope this helps,

-Rob
UC Berkeley

On 6/6/23 12:33 AM, Jörg Heise wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> we're migrating from Lyris Listmanager to Sympa 6.2.70. In Lyris, we've 
> been using Master-/Childlists and crossposting to send one posting to 
> multiple lists by avoiding that members will receive crossposted 
> duplicates.  We wonder how Sympa would handle this scenario. A test 
> showed that Sympa sent successfully to the childlists we added as normal 
> subscribers to the masterlist. And the childlists sent to their 
> subscribers. Duplicates are not sorted out. That's not a real problem.
> However, the childlists had the variables set as they would be the 
> masterlist. I.e. [% user.email %] refers to the childlist-address rather 
> the address of the subscriber. And [% listname %] refers to the name of 
> the master-lis instead the childlist. So a subscriber of the childlist 
> would get an unsubscribe-link to unsubscribe the childlist from the 
> masterlist.
> I understand the master/child-feature might just not be fully supported. 
> But I want to ask if there is a way to set up this scenario in Sympa?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jörg Heise on behalf of the Goethe-Institut

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