So how does a subscribe become aware of the different topics available on a list?
How does one configure a user's e-mail address to receive only messages which match a topic? Thanks -------------- Original message -------------- From: Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >I dumped out a list config and noticed at the bottom some config around > "topics". Some of the comments in the text suggests that a list subscriber > can > "choose to only receive messages from the mailing list for a particular topic > bucket (or buckets)". > > > >Is this saying then that there's a way for users to see only a subset of > messages sent to a list? Is this configurable from a users perspcetive? That > is, when a user subscribes, is there a way for the user to indicate in the > subscribe message the regular expression to use to determine which messages > (buckets) they're interested in? > > > Topics are defined by the list admin, not by the user. See the Topics > section of the web admin interface. Topics are defined by regexps that > match against the Subject: and Keywords: message headers or header > like initial body lines. > > If the list defines topics, each list member has the option of > subscribing to a subset of the defined topics and if the member > subscribes to one or more topics, she then has the further option of > receiving or not those message which match no topic. > > -- > Mark Sapiro The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
