Mailman list for triage - special requirements

[Bill Nottingham]

Jon Stanley (jonstanley at gmail.com) said: 
> John Poelstra and I were just thinking about a mailing list for
> watching incoming bugs.  Unfortunately, I don't know that there's the
> right combination of checkboxes in Bugzilla to just get mail about new
> bugs.  However, filtering based on mail header could get that - every
> new bugmail that Bugzilla sends has a header of
> "X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: New" that could be filtered on.
> 
> The question is whether or not mailman is capable of filtering based
> on arbitrary header values.  Note that this question doesn't mean
> we'll actually do this, we're still mulling over whether or not it's
> actually a good idea at all (and input on that front is welcomed
> too!).  However, we want to know if it's technically possible or how
> much effort would be needed to accommodate the request.

Why is this better than a RSS feed or similar?

Bill