Using bracketed prefixes in subject as filters

Gordon P. Hemsley writes:
This would not be a big deal to implement in HyperKitty (though I don't personally have the necessary sum of time and interest). If you can wait until next August for product, it would make an excellent GSoC project, I suspect, and probably you could get a patch for Mailman 2's Pipermail archiver from the same GSoC project.
Yuck. (That's a technical term. :-) This is rather un-Pythonic (violates the "there should be one (and preferably only one) obvious way to do it" principle, AKA "TOOWTDI").
The conventional way to configure this in Mailman would be to have two normal mailing lists (css3-fonts and css3-flexbox), and one umbrella list (www-style) which subscribes to the css-* lists but doesn't receive posts directly. People who prefer to have the server make decisions for them would subscribe directly to css-* lists. Those who prefer to filter themselves would subscribe to www-style.
It's still not a huge undertaking, and would be suitable for a GSoC project IMO.
However, this can also easily be handled by umbrella lists; you just cross-post to the various sub-lists. In the case of Mailman 3, it should also be possible to de-dupe automatically at the server side for subscribers with multiple subscriptions. This would be a GSoC- scale project too. For Mailman 2, it *would* be a pretty big project to de-dupe accurately, although "sibling lists" can help with this.
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Stephen J. Turnbull