[ILUG] open list abuse

Conor Daly conor.daly_ilug at cod.homelinux.org
Fri Sep 9 23:02:15 IST 2005


On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 11:33:24PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Dara Ó Maoilmhichíl thought:
> 
> can you put something in the mail list manager to categorise topics,
> so that for e.g. one could ignore posts with [ot] in the subject ? Or
> a vote on same perhaps.

The latest mailman software (which is AFAIK, what we use) has support for
topics.  Users can subscribe to specific topics and mailman will not send
them any others.  There is an option to receive or not messages that do
not match any topic also.  This is available in mailman 2.1.5 and later.

Conor
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