[Debtags-devel] [RFC] mailing list organisation

Peter Rockai me at mornfall.net
Sat Nov 26 18:28:57 UTC 2005


On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 08:41:37PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote:
> > was some sort of trick like subscribing one mailinglist to another,
> > like debtags-devel subscribed to debtags-vocabulary. Well, just random
> > thoughts :).
> 
> Interesting.  I still don't think we need it (and then we'd have two
> archives to search instead of one), but interesting.

Not really. The -vocabulary one wouldn't be archived at all, since
-devel would be subscribed to it :). So -devel will do the archiving
work. I just don't know how flexible the software is... I guess just a
little bit less than enough.

> > PS: Maybe we should add faceted system to the mailing lists and all
> > posts should be tagged appropriately </joking>.
> 
> You have no idea how I'd love it.  Actually the facets could be added by
> procmail; it's implementing faceted mailbox storage and patching mutt to
> use it that would be utterly crazy :(
> 
> Too bad, because I've been dreaming of tags to sort out mail since a
> couple of years at least...

Oh well, something could maybe be done, i just won't have time in near
future, but that doesn't preclude anything in a bit more distant
future =).

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