In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you wrote:
>"Ronald F. Guilmette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> The use of a "Precedence: bulk" incorrectly indicates to the
>> receiving site that TMDA challenge messages are part of the traffic
>> of some mailing list whose messages are being delivered to MANY
>> different parties.
>
>Where are you quoting from? Can you provide a reference please?
>Also, I'm not sure that 'bulk' is reserved for mailing lists only.
>AFAIK, there is a "Precedence: list" setting in circulation also.
>
>> TMDA should be fixed to instead generate the header:
>>
>> Precedence: junk
>>
>> for all challenge messages.
>
>Some spam filters (albeit broken ones) designate messages containing
>"Precedence: junk" as junk-mail, which is why we went with 'bulk'.
>
>> ("junk" is the traditional designation for one-time automatically-
>> generated messages, such as those from other kinds of
>> autoresponders.)
>
>Again, a reference to the appropriate RFC, etc, would help here.
Free advice: Try not to be a pinhead.
There is _no_ RFC which standardizes any usage of the `Precedence:' header,
and I suspect that you knew that already.
rfc2076 only says that Precedence: is non-standard and `discouraged'.
So what? If I cannot show you an RFC that tells you that shooting your-
self in the foot is a Bad Thing[tm] does that mean that you are going to
rush out and do it?
Try not to be a putz.
There is much existing practice with respect to the Precedence: header,
and if you're not too busy, maybe you could take the time to investigate
that common existing practice. (There are a few thousands different
kinds of autoresponders out there, and the vast majority of them use
`Precedence: junk'.)
Your claim that there are spam filters that filter out `Precedence: junk'
is silly. For every one of those you can find, I can find TWO that are
filtering out `Precedence: bulk', because that indicates *bulk* e-mail
(which, if unsolicited, is by definition spam).
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