Of everything I heard, Joe's suggestion sounds most palatable. I hope jobs will *always* be on the list but I understand that some people don't want to read them and feel it's a burden to filter (there are a lot of crappy mail clients out there).
The documentation I looked at isn't detailed enough to tell whether topic-based digests can be created. That would be needed to solve Ben's problem -- get a digest without job postings. Eric -- are you still the list owner? j...@code4lib.org already uses Job: as a prefix -- so I would suggest adding "Job" as a topic, setting Default-Topics= Job,OTHER (unless all-caps is requisite?) If this works, nobody should have to take any action except the list-owner and anybody who wants the "Job" topic filtered out. -Jodi On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Joe Hourcle <onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.gov>wrote: > On May 8, 2014, at 11:35 AM, Ben Brumfield wrote: > > > I suspect I'm not the only mostly-lurker who subscribes to CODE4LIB in > digest mode, finding value in a glance over the previous day's discussions > each morning, then (very) occasionally weighing in on individual threads > via the web interface. I find this to be more effective and efficient than > filtering-and-foldering individual messages, at least for my goal of > having some idea of the content of the conversations here, although--not > being a full-time library technologist--I'm really just skimming. > > > > I also suspect that I'm also not the only digest-mode subscriber who > would see value in a digest-mode option that excluded job postings. > > > As this is an an actual LISTSERV(tm) mailing list, it's possible for the > list owner to define 'topics', and then for people to set up their > subscription to exclude those they wish to ignore: > > > http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/16.0/htmlhelp/list%20owners/ModeratingEditingLists.html#2338132 > > I would suspect it would be honored even in digest mode, but I've never > tried it. > > -Joe >
