On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 12:56:47PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> I have just started to notice on a few of the mailing lists that I
> subscribe to this footnote appears on the message:
>
> [ Note: This message contains email list management information ]
Sounds like you use Pine. Click on the link that Pine gives you.
Depending on the List-* headers you will have access to post, subscribe,
unsubscribe, hassle the admin, see the archive.
>
> and looking in the headers I find the likes of:
>
> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=help>
> List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> List-Subscribe:
><http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/linux>,<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe>
> List-Id: Canberra Linux User Group <linux.lists.samba.org>
> List-Unsubscribe:
><http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/linux>,<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe>
> List-Archive: http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/linux/
>
> Can someone elaborate on this, what list manager provides it (I know one
> is ezmlm), and any other useful doco as I definitely have a use for this.
RFC2369.
> Has anyone noticed whether this footnote appears in mail clients other
> than Pine, which I use.
It also appears in Eudora to the best of my knowledge. It only started
appearing in Pine 4.21 -- except all mail clients to do something
useful with it shortly.
If I remember rightly the graphical ones will start putting in a `List'
menu that give you access to the various options.
Anand
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