On Nov 02, 2011, at 09:26 AM, William Bagwell wrote: >I happen to like Topics and find them quite usefull. You are correct >however in that they are confusing. The few lists I have been on through >the years that enabled Topics were all social lists with non-technical >users. BTW, these lists started on ListServe and later migrated to >Mailman to save money. I'm presuming that the name and function "Topics" >originated with ListServe?
The topics feature was funded and promoted by Control.com way back in the 2.1 alpha days (the NEWS file says it was released in 2.1a3 on 22-Oct-2001). IIRC we had quite a few discussions both internally and publicly about what Control.com needed, and how best to generalize the feature for the Mailman community. -Barry _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
