[Mailman-Users] How to exclude certain topics but subscribe to allothers?

[Mark Sapiro]

Kelly Jones wrote:

>I'm subscribed to a mailman mailing list. I want to receive all emails
>on the list *except those* matching a given topic or topics. How do I
>do this?


You have to subscribe to every topic except the ones you don't want,
and also elect to receive messages that don't match any topic. This
may or may not be what you want because a message can match more than
one topic, and if one of those is one you want to exclude and another
isn't, you'll receive the post.


>If a new topic is created, I want to be subscribed to it by default,
>but have the option of excluding it as well.


It doesn't work that way. You have to somehow become aware that there
is a new topic and subscribe to it.

In order to get what you want, you'd have to implement a 'topics to
avoid' option. There currently is no such option.

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