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["Matthew.Wickline@usa.net" <wickline@wickline.org>]

On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Vicki Brown wrote:
>   I know there is a way to tell Majordomo to allow postings from 
> certain addresses but not to send the list to those 


Do a newconfig for each list, and change the restrict_post
line to include more stuff.

Right now, each list, probably has only that list's name as
the value for that item. I would editing that value to
contain *every* macperl list. That way, a subscriber to
*any* of the lists can post to *any* of the lists (but if
they choose to do this, they will want to say "cc me 'cause
I ain't subscribed to this list" or they'll never hear their
response.

If you want folks to be able to post from alternate
addresses, then create another list of addresses which
contain only those alternate addresses. This list could
either be maintained by hand, or by another script, or you
could have majordomo do it. Just create a new list (maybe
macperl-alternate-addresses) and have *it* with a
restrict_post list of nothing. That way, nobody will ever
post to that list... and if that list is included on the
restrict_post line of all the normal (not the announce list)
lists, then folks can post from their alternate addresses,
if they subscribe those addresses to the alternate list.

Then, you just tell folks to subscribe their alternate
addresses to that alternate list, and they'll be able to use
it to post to every list (except announce) and you won't
have to lift a finger :)

So, in summary:

create a new list macperl-alt (or whatever)
config should not allow any posting
restrict_post:

edit restrict_post of every (non-announce) list to allow
posting. For example, in macperl-listA
restrict_post: macperl-listA:macperl-alt

I'd also suggest allowing cross-list postings:
restrict_post: mp-listA:mp-listB:mp-listC:mp-alt

HTH :)
-matt