On 11-11-02 7:26 AM, William Bagwell wrote:
Many people (including more than a few list owners) have problems with
Topics and using them correctly and efficiently. Can proved examples /
statistics if anyone wants? Oddly, I personally have never seen a
technical list that uses Topics. Have been greeted by crickets the few
times I have suggested tuning them on in responce to a political flame
fest.
For the record, I have seen them used on a smaller technical list (which
was running courses for different mostly tech topics), but the most
extensive use of a topic system I've ever seen is actually the Systers
"dynamic sublists" system:
http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Dynamic+Sublists
In short, it uses listname+topicn...@example.com style email addresses
to create sublists (listname+...@example.com to start a new one) and
allows people to subscribe/unsubscribe from those individually.
Overall, it means admins don't have to go around manually setting up
topics, it means subscribers don't have to try to read regexes to figure
out what subject tags they need to get grouped with the right topic, and
it seems to run a lot more smoothly in practice than Mailman's default
topic system, having used both.
One of the goals with Systers' summer of code work has been to get some
of this stuff integrated with Mailman, so if we're talking about fixing
the topic system, I highly recommend we take advantage of the lovely
code already prepared for us. :) We may even already have copyright
releases on file for this.
Terri
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