Jess H. Brewer wrote: > Please forgive me if this is an old topic that has been > beaten to death and I just wasn't around for it, but I've > not been able to find any mention of it in the Archives > (even with the help of the gmane search engine). > > In any listserver environment, there are times when one > would like to see only postings that are relevant to one > or two specific topics, and NOT see all the others. The > Mailman configuration tool at > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/options/fink-users > > provides a method for this: > ________________________________________________________ > > Which topic categories would you like to subscribe to? > ______________________________________________________________________ > > By selecting one or more topics, you can filter the traffic on the > mailing list, so as to receive only a subset of the messages. If a > message matches one of your selected topics, then you will get the > message, otherwise you will not. > > If a message does not match any topic, the delivery rule depends on the > setting of the option below. If you do not select any topics of > interest, you will get all the messages sent to the mailing list. > ______________________________________________________________________ > > *No topics defined* [emphasis added] > ___________________ > > Talk about dashed hopes.... > > Now, I can imagine reasons why no topics have been defined: > (a) There are too many topics. > > (b) There might be disagreement about how to title them. > (c) Someone would have to manage this, a big job. > > The same arguments must have applied to predecessors of Google. > > Argument (a) is inescapable; in fact it is _desirable_. > For (b) I would suggest that the "topic" be the package name > [without Version details, I'd say] but the manager [if any] > could decide this. There are thousands of packages, and two mailing list administrators, who have day jobs and other responsibilities. And the topic names and the regexes to match would have to be entered one-by-one into the interface. > For (c) the best solution would be to > persuade Mailman developers to implement a Google-style > filter that each member of the list can tweak the same way > as an Email filter. Of course I can do this myself on my > local mail client, but it is frustrating to see that offer > on the Mailman configurator and then have it jerked away > for lack of a Topic list. :-( > And even if that happened, we don't have any control over what version of Mailman sourceforge.net installs. > Is there any hope for improvement of this situation, or do > I have to set up my own filters? > > Thanks -- Jess > > I don't think I'll have the time to implement this idea in the foreseeable future.
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