David Smith wrote: > Jean-David Beyer wrote: >> If I understand correctly, this is done by setting the precedence of the >> vacation e-mail to "bulk" instead of something else ("list"?), and that >> mailing list programs do not send the stuff marked bulk. >> >> Is that not how mailing list programs work? > > > Not quite. > > Mailing lists programs normally send mails with the "Precedence: bulk" > or "Precedence: junk" header, and then the autoresponder should > recognise this and choose not to respond to mails with the "bulk" or > "junk" precedence header. It is up to the autoresponder to act correctly. > Well, the stuff I get from the Gnupg-users@gnupg.org list has "precedence: list" set. Other lists to which I subscribe use "Precedence normal" or "precedence: bulk". Regular e-mail does not have precedence set at all. It seems to me that mailing lists should get their acts together.
-- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 09:10:01 up 42 days, 17:05, 3 users, load average: 4.63, 4.80, 4.74
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
_______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users