[Mailman-Users] Re: Help with Topics

2020-10-15 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 10/15/20 1:41 PM, Grant Taylor via Mailman-Users wrote: > On 10/13/20 3:51 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> For example, if topic1 has regexp \WMailman\W and topic2 has regexp >> \Wlist\W, any message containing a Subject: or Topics: header or >> pseudo header containing the word Mailman ... > > What

[Mailman-Users] Re: Help with Topics

2020-10-15 Thread Grant Taylor via Mailman-Users
On 10/13/20 3:51 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: For example, if topic1 has regexp \WMailman\W and topic2 has regexp \Wlist\W, any message containing a Subject: or Topics: header or pseudo header containing the word Mailman ... What is a "pseudo header" in this context? Are you referring to the first

[Mailman-Users] Re: Help with Topics

2020-10-15 Thread Chip Davis
Thank you, Gentlemen! That was quite enlightening and _very_ helpful. I'm very grateful for your extensive explanations and examples and am going to give Topics a try and see if the subscribers take to them. -Chip- On 10/13/2020 5:51 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 10/13/20 1:56 PM, Chip Davis wr

[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

[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 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 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: > [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 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