[Mailman-Users] Feature request..

[Anders Norrbring]

> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:25:13PM +0200, Anders Norrbring wrote:
> > Would it be to much to ask for a language specific request?
> >
> > Both I and my users think a function to post different messages to
> different
> > users depending of their language choice would be great!
> >
> > F.x. I run a news/info list that both English and Swedish users are
> hooked
> > up to, if I write an English-only mail, that should go out to users who
> > chose English only, and the same for Swedish, and then some feature to
> make
> > messages go to both (all) if it's a multi-language message.
> 
> I see this as impossible.  To the best of my knowledge, there is no
> definitive way to tell which language a message is written in.  There is
> a large overlap between words in different languages, and I expect this
> problem to grow over time.
> 
> I'd suggest that you run one list for your English users and one for
> your Swedish users.  The sign up instructions shouild be clear which one
> the users should use.  If you sent the confirmation instructions via an
> e-mail in Swedish, I would expect your English users to not reply to
> that e-mail.

Oh well, half of my mail was lost in some way? Perhaps my Outlook Beta.
However, my suggestion was to use either the first line of the mess OR a
keyword in the subject line to define the language.

Anders.