Subject Lines on the Mailing list: [WAS: Looking for a NH mail list talking about Linux]

[Bruce Dawson]

mike ledoux wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 01:50:56PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>   
>> basically, IMHO, the GNHLUG is low volume enough that it probably would
>> not need to be split into 3 lists, as Maddog suggested, though it would
>> not be difficult to create the 2 additional lists, and use the main
>> discuss list as a target of both. 
>>     
>
> Say you have three sub-lists: gnhlug-chat, gnhlug-politics, and
> gnhlug-tech. If gnhlug-discuss is subscribed to all three, postings
> to any of the lists also get posted to -discuss.  All of these lists
> are restricted to only allow posting from subscribed addresses, to
> cut down on abuse.  So far, so good, that *seems* to be what we
> want.
>   
...

Of course, none of this would be a problem if we were using newsgroups 
(ala Usenet). Most of the news readers support kill lists (for authors, 
subjects, ...) which makes it easy to ignore certain threads and/or 
authors. And there's good support for news/mail gateways.

Another possibility is to use "Mailman topics".

Of course, if either of these avenues are chosen, then there remains the 
(for some reason) insurmountable task of implementing them.

--Bruce