> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Omar Thameen wrote:
>
> > How about if CompuServe at least _tries_ to determine if the message
> > is from a mailing list before sending out an autoresponse? This would
> > be very easy to do:
> >
> > Precedence: bulk
> > Mailing-List:
> >
> > are both headers that scream mailing list.
"Michael S. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied
> A reasonable idea, but currently not a practical one. Not all list
> managers implement these headers.
Quite on the contrary... it is a very practical idea to check for
mailing-list specific headers that are widely used.
It is _not_ a practical idea to wait until a header is
universally used by all lists.
God bless you,
Norbert
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