These are the categories that robotics-worldwide uses:

[meetings] [jobs] [journals] [software] [news]

Seems like a good place to start.

Sachin


On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Tully Foote via ros-users <
ros-users@lists.ros.org> wrote:

> Hi Stephan,
>
> Looking at our mailman instance it does appear to support topics. The
> technical process of adding them looks to be relatively simple. There's a
> flip side which is it will also require updating our community policies for
> posting, including educating our users how to use topics effectively, both
> as posters as well as subscribers.
>
> I personally have never used topics on a mailing list and don't know best
> practices and how they will effect the community. There are several
> important decisions such as what are the choice of topics. Also decisions
> to change topics in the future may require anyone using topics to log in
> and update their subscription settings which suboptimal, since it looks
> like if you select to subscribe to specific topics everything else gets
> dropped. Similarly there are statements in the documentation about messages
> being sent not being delivered to the list if not categorized.
>
> If you'd be willing to put together a more complete proposal and possibly
> link to some resources for people to learn about mailman topics. That will
> make it clearer to the community what the implications would be, and that
> would help us find a path forward.
>
> Tully
>
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:45 PM, Stephan Opfer via ros-users <
> ros-users@lists.ros.org> wrote:
>
>> My original idea, was to suggest, that the list admin presses 3 buttons
>> and enters some topics. That alone would change nothing for anybody, except
>> for those who don't want to receive certain topics. They could make the
>> list not even deliver the mails to their mail-server, in order to save
>> resources like memory, traffic, etc.
>>
>> If it is not that easy, as I thought, I will create local message
>> filters, which delete certain topics.
>>
>> So @listadmin: Please just give me feedback on that.
>>
>> Greetings,
>>   Stephan
>>
>>
>> On 25.08.2015 19:03, Scott C. Livingston via ros-users wrote:
>>
>>> The OP was about adding topic prefixes, e.g., as on the
>>> robotics-worldwide mailing list,
>>>
>>> http://duerer.usc.edu/pipermail/robotics-worldwide/2013-September/007064.html
>>>
>>> There is no need for a new account, etc.
>>>
>>> ~Scott
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