[22320] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AUTORESPONDERS : Gentle Reminder
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Partan)
Wed Dec 23 00:28:43 1998
From: Andrew Partan <asp@partan.com>
To: djr@narnia.n.ml.org (Daniel Reed)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 23:15:30 -0500 (EST)
Cc: rjoffe@mailorder.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9812222207090.1030-100000@narnia.n.ml.org> from "Daniel Reed" at Dec 22, 98 10:11:50 pm
> 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.
--asp@partan.com (Andrew Partan)
