On 30 Oct 2002, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Dave Crocker <dave(_at_)tribalwise(_dot_)com> writes:
Wednesday, October 30, 2002, 1:38:54 PM, you wrote:
Perry> As I use Return-Path: headers to filter my mail, this has gotten
Perry> annoying, Yes, I can indeed kludge around it, but is there a
Perry> particular reason for this being done?
Using return-path is a bit like paying attention to what mailbox a postal
letter is dropped into.
looking for ietf-announce in the recipient list works better.
The recipient list is a pretty poor way to deal with things when you
get mail sent to multiple lists you're on, and often the To: line ends
up with nothing at all. The Return-Path: is generally the surest way
to know which of the lists each of the messages was sent to. I've
tried lots of things over the years, and Return-Path: is what works
the best. I'm on a few hundred mailing lists so the matter is somewhat
important to me.
On the other hand, when someone replies to you on most mailing-lists (To:
you, Cc: m-l), at least _I_ don't want those hundreds of messages in my
inbox, rather in the respective folders (both direct mail and the
mailing-list version with Return-Path:).
The approach looks suitable if one is relatively passive on the mailing
lists.
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