Another reminder about "emacs-announce" topic

Another reminder about "emacs-announce" topic

[Glenn Morris]

A final reminder that it was agreed to use the "emacs-announce" Mailman
topic for messages that all developers should read.

AFAICS it still hasn't been used for anything at all.

If you don't want to use such a system, that's fine, but then please
implement & document something else. TIA.

Re: Another reminder about "emacs-announce" topic

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 21:14:00 -0500
> 
> A final reminder that it was agreed to use the "emacs-announce" Mailman
> topic for messages that all developers should read.

Could you perhaps point to a clear description of how such a message
should be formatted?  Also, how would a user subscribe to a "topic"?
I found random hints, mostly in the Mailman docs, and some pertinent
settings in the list admin pages, but nothing specific.

TIA

Re: Another reminder about "emacs-announce" topic

[Glenn Morris]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> A final reminder that it was agreed to use the "emacs-announce" Mailman
>> topic for messages that all developers should read.
>
> Could you perhaps point to a clear description of how such a message
> should be formatted?  Also, how would a user subscribe to a "topic"?

Sorry, thought I'd explained this before, but can't find the mail now.
I think http://www.list.org/mailman-member/node29.html covers it.
For sending:

   To post on a given topic, you need to make sure that the Keywords:
   or Subject: headers in a message match the regular expression for
   that topic.

Ie:

  Keywords: emacs-announce

or:

  Subject: [emacs-announce] blah

(I guess the difference between these two is that using the Subject will
propagate into replies. Based on experience of topic drift, this is
probably not wanted.)

For reading, you only need do anything special if you only want the
topic mails, and not the vast majority of mails (which have no topic
defined):

  Log in to your member options page.
  Look for the section marked "Which topic categories would you like to
  subscribe to?"