ADMINISTRAVIA: powerh-l list moving

David Sowder davids@cosmic.swau.edu
Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:21:13 -0600 (CST)


On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Chris Sharman wrote:
>Thanks for the warning, & all the good work over the years.
>
>Please, please, is there any chance of the new list software identifying the
>messages as being from a list, so that people who post to the list don't
>receive a flood of autoreplies ?
>
>I believe the appropriate header is "Precedence: list", or "Precedence: bulk",
>or "X-something-List-something" (that's what I look for anyway, although the
>standard and what Microsoft looks for is more important).

It looks like the new software does what I thought it would.  It uses the
"Precedence: bulk" header.

I suspect that a big part of the autoreplies could be from badly behaving
autoreply programs, but perhaps that is a misconception on my part.  We
shall see... :)

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David R. Sowder
Network Manager/Lead Software Technician
Southwestern Adventist University
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