Re: [Mailman-Users] Topic Filtering

2020-04-05 Thread John Marsden

Hello Mark

Thanks for this further clarification.

I can live with the anomaly (have to!) but it is good to know the position.

Regards

John

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On 03/04/2020 16:02, Mark Sapiro wrote:

On 4/3/20 2:24 AM, John Marsden wrote:

Hello Mark

Thanks for this confirmation. I suspected it would be the case, but it
is good to have it confirmed. Maybe one for the developers to think
about...

Do you, or does anyone else, know whether Mailman 3 behaves in the same
way?


Yes, it's the same in MM 3. Also MM 3 does not implement Topics,
although we have been looking a dynamic sublists which is a way for
users to decide which threads to receive or not receive.

None of this will affect digests. There is currently no mechanism for
building individualized digests and it is unlikely there ever will be.


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Re: [Mailman-Users] Topic Filtering

2020-04-03 Thread John Marsden

Hello Mark

Thanks for this confirmation. I suspected it would be the case, but it 
is good to have it confirmed. Maybe one for the developers to think about...


Do you, or does anyone else, know whether Mailman 3 behaves in the same way?

Regards

John

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On 02/04/2020 19:05, Mark Sapiro wrote:

On 4/1/20 8:00 AM, John Marsden wrote:

This works perfectly for those members who subscribe to receive
individual messages, but those who subscribe to Digests still receive
ALL messages in their digests, despite having selected the topic.

As far as I can see, this is a 'feature' of Mailman 2 and there appears
to be no obvious way to supply digests of messages which are restricted
to a selected topic.

Am I correct in this assumption? Is there a way to limit the digests to
messages relating only to topics selected by the list member?


You are correct. There is no mechanism within Mailman to create
individualized digests. Mailman creates a plain digest and a MIME format
digest, but both formats contain all messages.


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[Mailman-Users] Topic Filtering

2020-04-02 Thread John Marsden

Hi All

I manage a Mailman 2 list which is used to discuss family history issues.

Some of the members wish to raise topics outside the regular brief and 
this is being tolerated during the coronavirus outbreak when many of our 
members, who are often elderly, wish to post messages which are more 
concerned with living in isolation than with family history. However, 
some members do not wish to see these or participate in the off-topic 
threads arising.


I decided to use 'Topics' to identify these messages and to ask members 
to identify off-topic messages by prefixing the subject with 'NON-GEN'.


I did not want to tag the on-topic messages as it would mean asking the 
majority of the list to adjust to the needs of the minority, so I added 
a topic to the list using the Regexp ^((?!NON-GEN).)*$ to identify the 
on-topic messages.


This enables any member who does NOT want messages with a subject tagged 
with 'NON-GEN'to subscribe to the Topic and so receive only messages in 
which this tag does NOT appear.


This works perfectly for those members who subscribe to receive 
individual messages, but those who subscribe to Digests still receive 
ALL messages in their digests, despite having selected the topic.


As far as I can see, this is a 'feature' of Mailman 2 and there appears 
to be no obvious way to supply digests of messages which are restricted 
to a selected topic.


Am I correct in this assumption? Is there a way to limit the digests to 
messages relating only to topics selected by the list member?


Any suggestions will be welcomed.

John

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