On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Michael G Schwern wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 12:18:39AM -0500, Daniel Macks wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:32:44PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > > I have a request.  The amount of mail on fink-commits generated by .info
> > > and .patch file changes is rather daunting.
> > >
> > > Could the fink-commits list be split into seperate lists for seperate
> > > projects?  At the very least could the changes to .info and .patch files be
> > > put on a seperate list?  Or a list created which doesn't have those commits?
> > > That would make watching changes to the parts of the code you're interested
> > > in a bit easier.
> >
> > Can you just filter by subject-line? Use procmail to sort things into
> > different mailboxes (including /dev/null) or use mutt's scoring
> > function.
>
> Of course I can.  But under this logic we should just have one big mailing
> list for everything and everyone can filter devel vs beginner announcements
> as they want. :)
>
> I'd think most everyone else on the fink-commits list would find it useful
> to split the very high traffic .info changes off from the lower traffic
> fink changes rather than each subscriber having to write their own filter.
>
> Would other folks find this split useful?  If the answer is largely no,
> then yes, I'll write my own filter.

I use pine, and I see all the headers before the messages. I don't see
any problems with the list the way it is. In fact, I mix fink-beginners,
fink-devel, and fink-users in the same file using procmail.

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