GrantHorizons

After MUCH research and asking the Mailman wiki guys for both v2 and 3, and the webhost, and cPanel - nope, there's nothing. I think no one can conceive of that many lists!

That's very generous of you Cory. It's not so simple though - it's multiple web pages per list name. So: read name of txt file A stored either on the web or locally in a folder, go to webpage, enter name, add list admin email address and a couple of other radio buttons, submit, go to a webpage with that list name and other parts to make a full url, tick radio buttons, maybe enter field or two, and new page similar criteria, tick radio buttons, maybe enter field or two, and new page similar criteria, tick radio buttons, maybe enter field or two, and new page similar criteria, tick radio buttons, maybe enter field or two, and new page similar criteria, get email addresses from original text file, enter into page, submit, done. loop to txt file B and on...

Yes it's one shot. And there are only two different types of lists - 75 of one, which COULD be done manually - and 825 all identical except for name and email addresses. However, it does sound like the learning curve is steep, and thus questionable whether it's worth it. I thought about the virtues generally for my work, but there isn't much routine about it. I use Quicktext in Thunderbird for entering boilerplate into email, and Beeftext for boilerplate text elsewhere, but they're very simple to use and work fine. Thanks for the feedback everyone, it's greatly appreciated.

Yes, unfortunately there all sorts of restrictions when you hit large numbers, it becomes expen$ive. I need something that works in the browser but can also go outside and read a batch of text files, or a csv. Thanks for the info, much appreciated!

Hi, Just discovered Macro Express, and wondering if it is possible to, as the subject says, Automate the creation of 900 Mailman lists. My former webhost went bust, so I was forced to move to a new host and server. The old setup used EZMLM, a good solid but ancient mailing list system. The new host uses cPanel and Mailman 2.x as the "latest and greatest" - well that's all relative since it dates back to around 2001... But here we are, that's the platform. After much research, there seems to be no way using the supplied tools to create 900 lists easily. The process is one list at a time in the web interface, set various parameters on several pages, and upload the email addresses to the lists from text files with the name of each text file being the name of the list, then move on to the next. That's at least 3 minutes each x 900 = I don't want to know... CAN Macro Express do this?? Within of course a reasonable learning time... Of course I'm open to any suggestions too! :) Thanks, Grant