On 19/10/2020 15.15, Adrien Glauser wrote:
Hello,
As far as I understand there is no centralized tool allowing users to manage their mailing list subscriptions. Each ML has to be individually micro-managed.
The mail lists are being migrated from mlmmj to mailman, and also the mail server. So things will change, but it is a slow process donee be some volunteers (the heroes team).
Also MLs seem to assume that only messages from subscribed users are allowed through (even though there is a nice message that informs you if you are not yet subscribed that the message you just sent is "pending approval", in my recent experience none of the messages I sent this way actually went though).
Correct.
So the business logic here entails that sending message to several MLs pushes you under the following bus:
Either
your messages will land on the "waiting for approval" purgatory and probably won't ever go through
Correct.
Or
you have to manually subscribe to every single ML you want to write to keep track of all of them (to avoid sending a message to the one ML you forgot you weren't subscribed to);
Most people only subscribe to those lists they really want. If you post to one and it bounces, consider subscribing and resending, or renouncing.
and you have to add filters to your email client (as opposed to a centralized web manager) to avoid drowning in a tsunami of emails; and you have to be empirical about this, making sure your filters don't get false positives or negatives.
Machine filtering is easy. For this mail list, for example, filter on this header: X-Mailinglist: opensuse-project Every list has a similar header. Mail lists are an "ancient" system, but they are efficient. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)