The last proposal you suggested (a separate list) would be much appreciated! I'm also happy to add a filter so long as I can be sure that the release announcements will have that text. I can't afford to miss a release, but I'd love to cut down on the number of messages in my inbox.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Guy Harris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:guy@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank">guy@alum.mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On May 8, 2012, at 10:57 AM, James Diebel wrote:<br>
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> I'm a user of the tz database, but not a contributor. I would like to receive notification of when a new release has been issued, but without receiving the messages between contributors debating the merits of various proposed changes. Is there a way to configure my mailing list subscription to only receive release notifications?<br>
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</div>The mailing list doesn't have any inherent notion of "release notification" mail vs. other mail, so, no, there isn't a way to configure the subscription to do that.<br>
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> If this is not possible, perhaps the subject line of a message announcing a new release could always contain some keywords so that I could write a mail filter to archive non-release-announcement messages?<br>
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</div>Currently, that's not the case, although if you look for messages containing "code20" or "data20" in the subject line, that would probably filter out many - but not all - of the non-release-announcement messages (it would not filter out discussions in followup messages unless the subject line is changed).<br>
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> And do such new release announcements always come from the same person? That would also help.<br>
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</div>I'm guessing that, in the future, they'll come from Paul Eggert (I think there was pretty much a groundswell of "yes" in response to the proposal that he take over).<br>
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However, we might want to consider having a separate tz-announce mailing list, for new release announcements (and perhaps other announcements), and perhaps use Reply-To to redirect responses to the tz list.<br>
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