> I used to use bushels of filters, now I don't need any of them.
I used to, also. When I moved from majordomo to mailman, I dropped all
of them, to see which ones it made sense to put back (if any).
Based on user feedback, the filters my users WANT are:
o a filter to trap people who reply to digests without changing the
subject
o a filter to trap people who reply to digests or messages without
editing the included message.
That's about it. When I implement this, I'm going to add one more
filter, and that's a language filter, because there are a few words that
I feel are never appropriate for my mailing lists (one rhymes with duck,
another rhymes with tigger) -- but you need to be very careful here,
because otherwise you can really upset people like my friend Igor
Livshits....
The other thing that seems to bother people, based on a couple of small
informal surveys and user feedback, are administrative messages ("remove
me", "unsub..." etc) going to the list. Test messages just don't seem to
bother my users much, as long as they're not happening often.
your mileage will vary.
(One thing I found interesting -- when I made the move from majordomo to
mailman and removed all of my filters, I had at least six people who'd
written me complaining about the filters write me again, and tell me
that now that they were gone, they wanted me to put them back. Issues of
the lesser evil...)
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Chuq Von Rospach, Internet Gnome <http://www.chuqui.com>
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Yes, yes, I've finally finished my home page. Lucky you.
Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh
nervously and change the subject.
