[Outages-discussion] Outages lists configuration thoughts

[Jay R. Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joey Kelly via Outages-discussion" <outages-discussion at outages.org>
> 
> More too-cleverness...
> 
> If the mailing list software is hackable, we could maybe add an X-whatever
> header line with an ID, then have procmail/formail (my tools) redirect all
> replies with that header to -discussion. The usual problems with such a setup
> would will apply: users not subbed to -discussion would be a common problem,
> but even that can be automated... if the sender's email isn't in the second
> list, he could be notified via an emailed template stating that the message
> was accepted but a sub to the second list (or a link to the archives) is
> suggested to see all replies, etc.
> 
> $.02

No, that's about $0.35. :-)

The problem with that is really that you're pushing control of where the 
messages go out to the user, and that's not the best approach.

So far as I know, the list is run with Mailman 3 on Linux; Jared?

Cheers,
-- jra
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