North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: AUTORESPONDERS : Gentle Reminder
At 11:15 PM 12/22/98 -0500, Andrew Partan wrote: >> Actually, this mailing list neither adds in a "Mailing-List: ..." header >> nor a "Precedence: bulk" header, which are the two easiest ways to spot a >> modern mailing list. I'd suggest you complain to the mailing list >> managers, not the poor people whose [most likely] properly configured >> autoresponders aren't being given the information they should be given. > >Actually, the way to spot *any* mailing list is to notice that your >email address is not listed in the To: or Cc: lines. > >These peoples' autoresponders are broken; the list is fine. No, the list is not fine. It should set the Precendence level. Your method would automatically assume that anyone who BCC'ed you was a mailing list.
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