At 3:50 PM +0100 6/30/99, John Lines wrote:
> I would like to see a standard header for all mailing lists, for example:
>
> List-name: list-managers
>
> which I could rely on to filter lists.
<http://www.nisto.com/listspec/>
RFC 2369 (accessible from the above URL). Some lists support this.
Some don't, but it's going to be the emerging standard (I expect all
of my lists to support it RSN).
There is a second standard, the List-ID standard, which is also
affiliated to this and which lists ought to consider supporting. If
they exist, they answer your issue. If they don't, there are any
number of other ways to determine lists. My lists all go out with an
appropriate Sender: header, and that's what I encourage my users to
filter by in my list documentation. But you can usually find some
string that will guarantee it's a list posting, even if we're not yet
at the point where the mail client can automatically determine
whether a list exists 100% of the time. Setting up a filter for each
list is a trivial exercise...
> (Unfortunately this would have to
> be agreed by all the authors of list management software,
they're a bit ahead of you here... (grin)
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