Hi All I manage a Mailman 2 list which is used to discuss family history issues.
Some of the members wish to raise topics outside the regular brief and this is being tolerated during the coronavirus outbreak when many of our members, who are often elderly, wish to post messages which are more concerned with living in isolation than with family history. However, some members do not wish to see these or participate in the off-topic threads arising.
I decided to use 'Topics' to identify these messages and to ask members to identify off-topic messages by prefixing the subject with 'NON-GEN'.
I did not want to tag the on-topic messages as it would mean asking the majority of the list to adjust to the needs of the minority, so I added a topic to the list using the Regexp ^((?!NON-GEN).)*$ to identify the on-topic messages.
This enables any member who does NOT want messages with a subject tagged with 'NON-GEN'to subscribe to the Topic and so receive only messages in which this tag does NOT appear.
This works perfectly for those members who subscribe to receive individual messages, but those who subscribe to Digests still receive ALL messages in their digests, despite having selected the topic.
As far as I can see, this is a 'feature' of Mailman 2 and there appears to be no obvious way to supply digests of messages which are restricted to a selected topic.
Am I correct in this assumption? Is there a way to limit the digests to messages relating only to topics selected by the list member?
Any suggestions will be welcomed. John -- John Marsden Webmaster: www.lancashirebmd.org.uk www.cumbriabmd.org.uk www.1851-unfilmed.org.uk www.mlfhs.org.uk ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
