Responding To: Robert Nicholson <steffi2(_at_)DGS(_dot_)dgsys(_dot_)com>
Original Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 16:36:18 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID:
<Pine(_dot_)SOL(_dot_)3(_dot_)94(_dot_)970416163308(_dot_)27540A-100000(_at_)DGS>
I want to educate some mailing lists that don't use formal mailing
list software on how to format their message headers.
MINIMAL:
1) messages should be ^TO the list by a name (ie
procmail(_at_)(_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_)) rather than sent to individual
members.
ie if my email address is 'luomat(_at_)peak(_dot_)org' then no list should match
* ^TOluomat(_at_)peak\(_dot_)org
2) the "Precedence" line should be set to 'bulk' or 'list'
3) the 'from ' line should have *-owner or *-request in it.
NICETIES:
4) a good distinct "X-" header, such as 'X-Mailing-List'
5) Resent-* headers are also a nice addition
Those are just off the top of my head.....
TjL
--
TjL <luomat(_at_)peak(_dot_)org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/
"Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem.
Teach a man to write code and you give him a
lifetime of new problems" -- me