fedora-package-announce at redhat.com message ?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon May 22 20:22:51 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 13:02 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 12:18 AM +0930 5/23/06, Tim wrote:
> >On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 13:15 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote:
> >> As far as I can tell, no messages are actually categorised in a way
> >> that the list manager understands.
> >
> >I was beginning to wonder about that, too.  Some goofup with the
> >filtering pattern, perhaps.
> >
> >> Has anyone played with the setting underneath, "Do you want to receive
> >> messages that do not match any topic filter?" It's set to "No" by
> >> default. If you check that, and start getting e-mail, then my guess is
> >> right.
> >
> >I set that to "no."  From a logically point of view, you have to, if you
> >expect to filter only the message that you want.  If you set it to
> >"yes," there was no point in selecting the other filters.
> 
> No, you are confused about the intended meaning.  "Messages that do not
> match any topic filter" doesn't mean "any selected topic filter".  The
> intent is clearly that, when a message that isn't for FC3, FC4, or FC5
> appears, you could either get it or not get it.
> 
> It's not well thought out, though.  When FC6 appears, it will be a new
> topic that no one has selected yet, so the setting for "untopic'ed"
> messages still won't let them through.
> 
> 
> >I'm beginning to wonder if they got to clever for themselves with this
> >idea, and should have simply set up three different mailing lists.
>  ...
> 
> By now, yes, certainly.  Or they could just /turn/ /off/ filtering until
> they get it fixed.  And thought through properly.

I have not changed my filter settings (i.e. FC5 only). Messages have
just started coming through. Those that want to filter the mails for a
particular distro might like to try again now.

Paul.




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