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.
