[Mailman-Developers] Topic regexps

[Terri Oda]

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I agree that one|two|three makes more sense than onetwothree.  I 
certainly would have expected the former.

On 24-May-06, at 1:12 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> OTOH, I've never really received much feedback on the whole topics
> features (thus the dearth of responses to your question ;) so I don't
> really have a good sense of how people are using this, if they are at
> all.

Just for the record, linuxchix actually does use the topics on one of 
our lists (used for courses, so we don't have to set up a new list 
anytime someone wants to give a few lessons on a subject) and I haven't 
gotten any complaints from our users aside from the odd "please make 
sure you've got the right subject tag for this course!" stuff.

Of course, this could mean that no one uses the topic functionality 
'cause they'd rather use clever mutt rules to organize their mail. ;)  
But I'll assume that the lack of comment on a list that's been running 
for years is probably a good sign that the topic parser does its job.

My only problem with the topics came when I had to explain it to users 
who might not understand regular expressions.  Never was terribly 
satisfied with this one:
http://list.org/mailman-member/node30.html

  Terri
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