On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:36:33PM -0800, Michael S. Johnson wrote:
> 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.
>
> A reasonable idea, but currently not a practical one. Not all list
> managers implement these headers. RFC 2369 [1] is a step in the right
> direction, but is not yet widely implemented, either.
Majordomo uses the "Precedence: bulk" header by default, ezmlm uses
"Mailing-List: ", and you could get the listserv moderated lists by
looking for "Approved-By: ". That covers quite a few existing lists,
and I'll bet without too much effort, you can get most of the other
major MLMs.
> > In these instances, CompuServe should notify _their_ user that they
> > need to update the email address.
>
> Also a good idea in theory. Have you suggested this to them? What was
> their response?
I sent my objection of the behavior of the autoresponder to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], but received no reply. Is any CompuServe
person on this list, or does anyone have a better contact address?
Omar
