Feature Requests item #679234, was opened at 2003-02-03 00:47 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350103&aid=679234&group_id=103 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Rosstyk Ivantsiv (lumik) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Nested Lists(Segments) enhanced support Initial Comment: Imagine a simple situation: I run the tourism-related mailing list, which I use to send various proposals to other companies providing touristic services and located in different cities. I want to group all subscribers into groups(segments) depending, for example, on their geographic location. I consider some postings not to be interesting (even abusing) for some groups of subscribers, so I set the WHOLE group not to receive mail with a single operation and than send my posting to the list. Sure, this can be realized in current version of mailman by creating nested lists but it looks not to be the best choice. I advise you to realize some little segment support in mailman (probably based on a subscriber description). Here is the quote from Lyris documentation: "Let's say you'd like to send a special message to only those list members who - joined your list a week ago - live in France - are celebrating their birthday today - have made a major purchase in the last year - have an email address at a particular domain (e.g., aol.com or hotmail.com) ListManager allows you to send to a segment, or subset, of your list who meet the criteria you define. Instead of sending to your entire list, you can use segments to filter exactly who should get a message based on whatever criteria you choose. " Lyris(www.lyris.com) ListManager is a list manager with lots of features but it really sucks: -stupid unconvenient web-interface(pages reload many times to perform a simple operation) -it's not absolutely free(for example, to support segments I have to pay) -no internationalization!!! That's why I've chosen Mailman :) If you include some segment support in your next release, mailman will be 100%convenience system for me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350103&aid=679234&group_id=103