[GNC] Mailing list options (was Re: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 233, Issue 90)

[Stan Brown]

On 2022-08-31 15:15, Phyllis Bruce wrote:
> Robert, I am not interested in any of the business accounting or
> stock accounting questions. I followed your instructions to change my
> options which were already set as you suggested.  However, I was
> unable to find a list of topics to limit what I will receive, or a way
> to enter said topics once I find the list.

Please don't use the digest title as a subject line.

The mailing list doesn't offer that kind of granularity, Phyllis. (It's
pretty standard 1980s or 1990s vintage mailing list software, from what
I can tell.) There couldn't be "a list of topics to limit what I will
receive", because there's no way to predict what subject lines people
will use -- also, of course, because unfortunately a lot of people use
the digest title as a subject line, so there's no way to know what's in
the message without reading it.

If you set digest off, each message will be separate, and your own mail
program will probably let you filter out threads you don't want to see.

This kind of filtering would be child's play in Usenet. I've never
understood the objections to that approach, but they exist so I'm not
attempting to reopen the question here.

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com