Changing the filter to ignore re: prefixes might be a good idea...

About implementation, I think I suggested a very simple way to get
something that I think should make everyone happy pretty quick, without
any duplication of information. Can someone explain whats wrong with:
A. Adding a button to BFAV that says "mail quietly". It would send the
mail to squeak-harvest.
B. Subscribing only sqfixes to squeak-harvest (if people want to read
that stuff, then it should be sent publically).

The assumptions -
1. Authors of BFAV messages know when something has absolutely no chance
of interesting anyone.
2. We don't currently have the news-bot, so we're keeping any traffic
that might be interesting to someone on squeak-dev.

Daniel

Brent Vukmer <bvukmer at blackboard.com> wrote:
> I propose:
> -keep "mail to list" pointed at squeak-dev
> -point the BFAV at the squeak-harvest list
> -configure mailman to send squeak-dev posts to the squeak-harvest list
> --the squeak-harvest list will apply a filter that blocks everything but
> posts whose subject line matches the ANN|BUG|ENH|FIX|GOODIE regexp
> 
> As far as tracking the conversation goes, a really simple solution that
> Ken is testing, is just to strip RE:/Re: from the subject lines of posts
> before testing the ANN|BUG|ENH|FIX|GOODIE regexp.  That way the BFAV can
> continue to group posts by topic.