[22322] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AUTORESPONDERS : Gentle Reminder
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Balling)
Wed Dec 23 00:55:17 1998
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 21:45:57 -0800
To: Andrew Partan <asp@partan.com>, djr@narnia.n.ml.org (Daniel Reed)
From: Derek Balling <dredd@megacity.org>
Cc: rjoffe@mailorder.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199812230415.XAA23944@home.partan.com>
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.
