At 12:33 -0500 3/13/2001, Omar Thameen wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:36:33PM -0800, Michael S. Johnson wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Omar Thameen wrote:
>>
>> > How about if CompuServe at least _tries_ to determine if the message
>> > is from a mailing list before sending out an autoresponse? This would
>> > be very easy to do:
>> >
>> > Precedence: bulk
>> > Mailing-List:
>> >
>> > are both headers that scream mailing list.
>>
>> A reasonable idea, but currently not a practical one. Not all list
>> managers implement these headers. RFC 2369 [1] is a step in the right
>> direction, but is not yet widely implemented, either.
>
>Majordomo uses the "Precedence: bulk" header by default, ezmlm uses
>"Mailing-List: ", and you could get the listserv moderated lists by
>looking for "Approved-By: ". That covers quite a few existing lists,
>and I'll bet without too much effort, you can get most of the other
>major MLMs.
Then of course there is RFC 2076, which describes the Precedence
header field as "non-standard, controversial and discouraged" :-(
