Ralph Shumaker wrote: > John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > >No need to test: a message tagged with [kooler] will go to the list > >addressed to. > > OK, ..., not to sound critical, but where's the benefit of using > [Kooler] in the subject line if it just goes to the regular list > anyway? Filtering?
Exactly. There is a bit of history, and piles of precedent behind this. Precedent: a lot of lists use the [Tag] style of Subject: tagging to show what list the message came from. We have not done that with our lists History: kplug-list kept getting chatty with ``off-topic'' stuff. Some people became annoyed, and there was talk of making a specific off-topic list. One of our members (Bob LaQuey) suggested the [Kooler] tag as he saw the list as a bunch of people congregating about a water cooler. We tried the [Kooler] tag, but people did not use it as much as might have been liked, so the -kooler list was made. Some people objected to it, and refused to subscribe. Other people objected to it and dump -kooler and -list to the same folder, so the difference cannot be seen (and threads that migrate from list to list remain unbroken) In short: yes. For filtering. > I like that, mostly, except the cc: option (unless I *know* that the cc: > recipient is *not* on the kooler list). Since I'm subscribed to kooler, > I guess I could filter kooler messages into their own sub-folder under > kplug. This way, I can easily check the list of messages in the kooler > folder to see if the person to whom I'm responding is in there. (If > not, then it is uncertain whether or not they are subscribed there.) I think Mailman will only deliver a message to a particular person once. If Mailman sees that the person is CC'd or TO'd, then it won't deliver to that person. One would have to know the exact address that the recipient is subscribed as. That could also make an interesting DOS against a particular person (even if there are still the web archives). I think I will have to test that, and see what I can come up with. > Is there a link I could include in the -list announcement posting to > make it easy to go find the -kooler archive? Jim gave the generic archive; there is no way to give a link to the specific message before it hits the archive, I am afraid. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
