Re: elist address or your address in message TO header

[Russ Allbery]

James M Galvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>     Some vacation programs also ignore "precedence: bulk" and the like,
>     so maybe memail is counting on that?

> Precedence is another one of those problematic headers.  Popularized by
> USENET, today it enjoys so many different uses that making your
> statement out of context is specious.

Popularized by Usenet?  Huh?  Precedence has never been a Usenet header
that I've ever seen.

The oldest use of precedence that I'm aware of is that Precedence: junk
has been in the headers generated by the old-style Unix vacation program
for eons, and sendmail.cf had handling of a few different types of
precedence headers and they had some effect on queue prioritization.

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>