<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 14:04, Luke Faraone <span dir="ltr"><luke@faraone.cc></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 13:56, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
To Martin's point, how about the routine use of a filterable tag,<br>
[SoaS] , in the Subject to messages appropriately routed to either<br>
IAEP or Devel or both?</blockquote></div><br></div>I just created a "Sugar on a Stick" topic on Sugar-Devel's mailman, which matches the pattern "[SoaS]" in the subject of a message.</blockquote><div>
<br></div><div>Following up on Luke's message: For those of you who have not used Mailman's topic feature, here's the help text directly from Mailman's administrative interface. (For those of you not familiar with regular expressions, don't worry too much. ;-) Bottom line, in this case at least, is "the string '[SoaS]'." <br>
<br>| The topic filter categorizes each incoming email message <br>| according to regular expression filters you specify below. If </div><div>| the message's Subject: or Keywords: header contains a match</div><div>| against a topic filter, the message is logically placed into a</div>
<div>| topic bucket. Each user can then choose to only receive </div><div>| messages from the mailing list for a particular topic bucket</div><div>| (or buckets). Any message not categorized in a topic bucket</div><div>| registered with the user is not delivered to the list.</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">| N</span></font></span>ote that this feature only works with regular delivery, not</span></div>
<div>| digest delivery.<br>|<br>| The body of the message can also be optionally scanned for</div><div>| Subject: and Keywords: headers [depending upon how the list</div><div>| has been configured by a list administrator].<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>To take advantage of topics, follow the link at the bottom of your mail to your subscription page, in this case</div><div><a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> and proceed to the form at the bottom which asks:</div>
<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; ">| To unsubscribe from sugar-devel, get a password reminder, or change your </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; ">| subscription options enter your subscription email address:</span></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; font-size: medium;">Enter your e-mail address, and when prompted, your password. Scroll down the next page until you see:</span></font></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">|---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div>| Which topic categories would you like to subscribe to?<br>| <br>| By selecting one or more topics, you can filter the </div>
<div class="gmail_quote">| traffic on the mailing list, so as to receive only a </div><div class="gmail_quote">| subset of the messages. If a message matches </div><div class="gmail_quote">| one of your selected topics, then you will get the</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">| message, otherwise you will not.<br>| <br>| If a message does not match any topic, the delivery</div><div class="gmail_quote">| rule depends on the setting of the option below. If you</div><div class="gmail_quote">
| do not select any topics of interest, you will get all</div><div class="gmail_quote">| the messages sent to the mailing list.</div><div class="gmail_quote">|---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div>
| Do you want to receive messages that do not match <div>| any topic filter?<br>| <br>| This option only takes effect if you've subscribed to at least<div>| one topic above. It describes what the default delivery rule</div>
<div>| is for messages that don't match any topic filter. Selecting </div><div>| No says that if the message does not match any topic filters,</div><div>| then you won't get the message, while selecting Yes says to</div>
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<div><br></div><div>Make your changes to the above two questions, and don't forget to click the "Submit my changes" button when done.</div></div></div>