>Just to be specific, and please correct me if this is not where you were
>headed, given any arbitrary message and only that message, is it
>possible to know if it is from an elist?
I do not know of a generally available MLM where you can't use a
header to figure it out.
Certainly I agree with you but your statement doesn't answer the
question. Without out-of-band information is not possible to construct
*a* filter criterion that will correctly filter all elist messages.
Nonetheless, I've always been successful at constructing a filter
criterion for any elist. And, as you say, even today there aren't that
many different criteria that are needed to filter almost all elist
messages. The point is there is not exactly one.
>The List-* headers are a Proposed Standard in the IETF (the first step
>along the 3-step standardization path), and there's no reason to think
>they will not evenutally be a full Standard. One could make the case
>that the List-* headers were a creative way around the political issues
>of a decade ago. (And as far as I know LISTSERV does not support them.)
Mailman will in 2.0, along with List-ID. I expect as they're
formalized, you'll see other MLMs add them.
You know, I confess I have a vague recollection of "List-ID" but I can
not find any documentation about it. Do you have a pointer to anything?
In particular, I can not find anything in the IETF. I wonder if it was
superceded by the LIST-* headers? If it was, it would be another reason
why that document needs to have at least one mandatory header.
Jim
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