Tonight I took a closer look at the checks TMDA does to try and detect a mailing list message so it can inhibit sending auto-responses to the list admin.
I looked at 17 different list management packages, and TMDA correctly identifies messages from the following 16 MLMs/services: communigate pro, ecartis, ezmlm, fml, listar, listbox.com, listguru, listproc, lyris, mailman, majordomo, minimalist, smartlist, sympa, topica, yahoogroups Notably absent is LISTSERV, which unbelievably adds absolutely no indication whatsoever that the messages it distributes are mailing list messages. In addition, it actually munges selected headers, aggressively uppercasing From and To field addresses, adding unnecessary tabs to fields, and even replacing the Date field with its own format. e.g, Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 02:53:21 -0700 Reply-To: "Itamar S.-T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Itamar S.-T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ANN: amkCrypto for Win32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Overall, LISTSERV exhibits extremely net-unfriendly and possibly standards violating behavior. I'd avoid it, and dissuade others from using it whenever possible. _________________________________________________ tmda-workers mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-workers
