On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Stan Ryckman wrote:
> > I would like to see a standard header for all mailing lists, for example:
> >
> > List-name: list-managers
Listar supports all of the RFC2369 headers (yeah, I know, blatant plug)
> Look for RFC2369, which I think is still Standards Track.
> There's a copy at (among other places):
> http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc2369.html
> "List-Unsubscribe" is the header which would always be present.
> Its contents are the obvious address, and would change only
> if the list moved.
I think there are a couple of others which are supposed to be there as
well.
If you enable the rfc2369 headers (it's a config option) then Listar puts
the following headers in. List-help, List-unsubscribe, and List-name.
If you turn off rfc2369-minimal (another option) it also puts
List-subscribe, List-owner, List-post, and List-Archive.
> Onelist.com lists now use them:
> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> where XXXX is the listname.
>
> As for filtering on it, especially creating folders automatically...
> you'll have to decide how you want your setup to behave when
> somebody forwards/bounces/resends (pick your terminology) a message
> to you, but from a list you aren't subscribed to, and their software
> leaves that header in.
Right now rfc2369 isn't getting as much support as would be good, mainly
because most MUA's don't support the nice features that these headers
will allow. However, support for them is coming slowly (the co-author of
listar submitted back a patch to pine to handle them and the author of
pine has said he'll incorporate them (or a close variant) into the next
release of Pine).
--JT
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