[Terrapreta] Global Warming arguments

[Philip Small]

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Greg and April <gregandapril at earthlink.net>
wrote:

>
> Question, can these objectives be accomplished by adding key words to the
> subject line or do we need totally separate lists?
>

We wouldn't need totally separate lists, but separate lists would be far
simpler for Tom, as well as for us as users.

Personally, I don't think we need to change.  I am fine with the fire hose,
I read every word that I am interested in, and sample the rest with my
peripheral vision.

FYI, to do the "keywords in the subject" approach with the list software,
Mailman version 2.1.9.cp2, Tom, as list admin, can enable the "Topics
Filter".  Tom then defines several topics with 'names' and 'regular
expressions' to match against Subject:. Then each member who is interested
in topic filtering can 'subscribe' to one or more topics of interest and,
separately, choose to receive or not receive those messages that do not
match a topic.

Once Tom enabled and defined some topics, you would see the following on
your user options page (
http://bioenergylists.org/mailman/options/terrapreta_bioenergylists.org/[youremailaddress]
)

*Which topic categories would you like to subscribe to?*
>
> By selecting one or more topics, you can filter the traffic on the mailing
> list, so as to receive only a subset of the messages. If a message matches
> one of your selected topics, then you will get the message, otherwise you
> will not.
>
> If a message does not match any topic, the delivery rule depends on the
> setting of the option below. If you do not select any topics of interest,
> you will get all the messages sent to the mailing list.**
>

*Which topic categories would you like to subscribe to?*
>
> By selecting one or more topics, you can filter the traffic on the mailing
> list, so as to receive only a subset of the messages. If a message matches
> one of your selected topics, then you will get the message, otherwise you
> will not.
>
> If a message does not match any topic, the delivery rule depends on the
> setting of the option below. If you do not select any topics of interest,
> you will get all the messages sent to the mailing list.
>
Note that this feature only works with regular delivery, not digest
delivery.

The body of the message can also be optionally scanned for keywords.  This
is something else Tom could enable, and he would set how many lines of the
body will be scanned, for example the first 5 lines.
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