[ale] OT: Taxing issues

[hirsch at zapmedia.com]

Joseph A Knapka writes:
 > 
 > In deference to the gentleman from ZapMedia, back to
 > the topic: wouldn't it be cool if there were mailing-
 > list software (that was open-source, and ran on
 > Linux) that would let you create temporary mailing
 > lists for subthreads like this? Does such a thing
 > exist? I'm imagining a scenario where anyone could
 > reply to a message with a special flag in the
 > Subject: that causes the listserver to generate
 > a temporary list and auto-subscribe everyone
 > who's contributed to the thread. It would then
 > mail the list address to the original list, and
 > then people who want to follow the OT subthread
 > could continue to do so by subscribing to the
 > temp list. Temp lists would cease to exist after
 > no one posts to them for some time.

I'd like the complementary capability to remove myself from a thread.
When a thread develops that I have no interest in I send a suitable
message to the mailing list and any future mails with that subject (or
even followups with different subjects?) does not get mailed to me.
Kind of like a filter, but a server side filter rather than client
side.

--Michael

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