[Swansea Hackspace] Community building

[Andrew Price]

On 24/04/13 16:33, Justin Mitchell wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 14:57 +0100, Tom Lloyd wrote:
>> All lists would be open - I meant to have separate lists purely so
>> admin and organisational business doesn't get lost amongst general
>> chit chat.  Subject line prefixes could do this job too, although I
>> lean more toward separate lists, as the functionality is already there
>> in Mailman and it keeps things nicely sorted.  Justin's the one who
>> actually has to do it, so up to him :)
>
> Just reading through the docs, mailman has a concept of 'topics' within
> one mailing list.  once defined you can tag your emails to belong to a
> specific topic, and users can select which ones they want / dont want to
> receive.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/node29.html

"but it is the responsibility of each poster to make sure that their 
post is put with the correct topic"

Um, yeah, that's not going to work well. Separate lists would be fine.

Andy