Re: MoreOn: Attempts at establishing harmful conventions

On Tue November 30 2004 19:39, Steve Dorner wrote:

> Is [nameoflist] inserted by a list processor a human-level convention?
>
> If a machine puts it there, I think it's reasonable for another 
> machine to try to take it out.
The problem is that given a message with such a string in its
Subject field, there is no way to determine whether it was
put there by a machine or by the message's author.