[Mailman-Users] Help with Topics

2020-10-13 Thread Chip Davis
[Re-sent after not getting my copy back from the listserver after five hours.] I'm trying to set up Topics for a Mailman 2.1.33 list I administer, and I'm a tad confused. There appears to be no combination of options to allow a member of a list to see _only_ non-topic-specific postings. If

[Mailman-Users] Re: Help with Topics

2020-10-13 Thread Richard Damon
I create one topic that I request everyone using topic to select for important administrative messages from the moderator of the list. That gives them something to select if they don't want any of the normal topics. On 10/13/20 3:21 PM, Chip Davis wrote: > [Re-sent after not getting my copy back f

[Mailman-Users] Help with Topics

2020-10-13 Thread Chip Davis
I'm trying to set up Topics for a Mailman 2.1.33 list I administer, and I'm a tad confused. There appears to be no combination of options to allow a member of a list to see _only_ non-topic-specific postings. If you select one or more topics of interest, you will receive the postings under t

[Mailman-Users] Re: Help with Topics

2020-10-13 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 10/13/20 12:21 PM, Chip Davis wrote: > [Re-sent after not getting my copy back from the listserver after five > hours.] It's been delivered now. The issue is greylisting combined with the fact that different servers with significantly different IP addresses at relay.mailchannels.net are doing

[Mailman-Users] Re: Help with Topics

2020-10-13 Thread Chip Davis
Thanks for the suggestion, Richard. The only downside to that is that your 'Subject:' line now has least three identifiers: the list-id, the admin-id, and the topic-id.     Subject: [FlyGuys] [Admin] [B-26] Re: cockpit vent repair I was hoping to avoid the Subject bloat, and it crossed my min

[Mailman-Users] Re: Help with Topics

2020-10-13 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 10/13/20 12:21 PM, Chip Davis wrote: > > There appears to be no combination of options to allow a member of a > list to see _only_ non-topic-specific postings. Correct, but as Richard Damon notes, you can define an otherwise unused (with a regexp that will probably never match) or a special a

[Mailman-Users] Re: Help with Topics

2020-10-13 Thread Richard Damon
I wouldn't have an message tag [Admin] that is also with a normal topic. [Admin] is for broad notices, like reporting that the hosting company needs to hold the list for a bit to do an update. Thus only two tags on the message. You only get 1 copy of the message, as long as it matches at least one

[Mailman-Users] Re: Help with Topics

2020-10-13 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 10/13/20 1:56 PM, Chip Davis wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion, Richard. > > The only downside to that is that your 'Subject:' line now has least > three identifiers: the list-id, the admin-id, and the topic-id. > >     Subject: [FlyGuys] [Admin] [B-26] Re: cockpit vent repair > > I was hopi