I've never used topics for my mailing list, but would like some Nabble input on best-use practices
Posted by PedXing on Feb 07, 2011; 5:20pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/I-ve-never-used-topics-for-my-mailing-list-but-would-like-some-Nabble-input-on-best-use-practices-tp6001033.html
So, I've read the Nabble documentation on using topics/subject prefixes in conjunction with a mailing list and I want to make sure before I make any changes to my Nabble setup that I understand everything correctly so I don't screw anything up.
I have my Nabble forum app setup as a mailing list archive. Lets say I initiate 5 new prefixes to the list and convince people to use them. [classifieds] [announcement] [discussion] [wanted] [rideshare] for example. So I need to go to the forum app, options, structure, create new sub forum, and use the prefix text without the brackets as the name of the sub forum (i.e. "classifieds") and I do this for the 5 prefixes that I want to support. From that point on, any email coming from the list with a given prefix in the subject will be automatically shoved into the appropriate sub forum, and any message posted in the sub forum will get the prefix added to the subject when fed back to the list. Any message without a prefix will just drop to the parent forum and any user can choose to view the forum in a flat hierarchy if they so choose. And of course if I want to manually move items to the appropriate sub forums that is always available.
Does this all sound right? I want to make sure that by adding a sub forum I won't be wrecking my existing mailing list archive setup.
thanks!