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Retiring a Mailing list

Grant edited this page Oct 30, 2024 · 7 revisions
  • Post a retirement message to the list Example
  • List Admin Set list info to something like:
<div style="background-color: #ffe6e6; border: 1px solid #ff4d4d; padding: 10px; border-radius: 5px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">
This mailing list is now retired. Please join the discussion on the 
<a href="https://community.openstreetmap.org/" style="color: #d00000; text-decoration: underline;">Community Forum</a>.
</div>
  • List Admin Set list Privacy advertised to No.
  • List Admin Set list Privacy subscribe_policy to Confirm and approve
  • List Admin Set list General emergency to Yes.
  • List Admin Set list Privacy / Sender Filter generic_nonmember_action to discard.
  • List Admin Set list Privacy / Sender Filter member_moderation_action to reject
  • Later by sysadmin: Final step is rmlist cli to completely deleted the list, the archive is kept by default.
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