Specific geographical membership in the maillist; Folkemusiklisten
Hi mailman,
I have a question from a subscriber, who asks if its a possibility to narrow her receiving mails down to a specific geographical area.
She just wants to receive mails on Folkemusiklisten (typical mails about upcoming shows and concerts) from the area where she lives.
Can I set the mail list up in mailman, so I can accommodate her request? It should be a feature, where the subscribers themselves can enable this and not as an implied feature for everybody, because many still prefer to receive mails, covering the whole country. My thoughts on this, is that it cant, because the sender is not registered by geographical area, but only by his or hers mail address.
Kind regards
Martin Ibsgaard
Information Services
Folkemusikkens Fælles Sekretariat Saltholmsgade 22 8000 Århus C Tlf: +45 70225070 www.folkemusik.dk http://www.folkemusik.dk/
On 2/22/2010 5:37 AM, Martin Ibsgaard wrote:
I have a question from a subscriber, who asks if it’s a possibility to narrow her receiving mails down to a specific geographical area.
She just wants to receive mails on Folkemusiklisten (typical mails about upcoming shows and concerts) from the area where she lives.
Can I set the mail list up in mailman, so I can accommodate her request? It should be a feature, where the subscribers themselves can enable this and not as an implied feature for everybody, because many still prefer to receive mails, covering the whole country. My thoughts on this, is that it can’t, because the sender is not registered by geographical area, but only by his or hers mail address.
You might be able to use Mailman's Topics feature for this if the area is mentioned in the Subject: of the post or in a Keywords: line at the beginning of the body. Otherwise, there is no way.
-- Mark Sapiro mark@msapiro.net The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Mark Sapiro writes:
On 2/22/2010 5:37 AM, Martin Ibsgaard wrote:
I have a question from a subscriber, who asks if it’s a possibility to narrow her receiving mails down to a specific geographical area.
She just wants to receive mails on Folkemusiklisten (typical mails about upcoming shows and concerts) from the area where she lives.
You might be able to use Mailman's Topics feature for this if the area is mentioned in the Subject: of the post or in a Keywords: line at the beginning of the body. Otherwise, there is no way.
Another alternative would be to have separate lists for each local area, and have those lists also feed into regional lists or a national list.
Which way to go depends on how much manpower you have. Mark's suggestion is way less demanding on administration, about equally flexible in terms of configuration, and requires somewhat more effort from the subscribers.
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