From: Life is just a bowl of queries! (JMELTON_at_sybgate.sybase.com)
Date: Fri Mar 29 1996 - 12:51:37 EST
Many mailing lists to which I belong manipulate the SMTP (or whatever)
header information so that the From: information is shown to be the
mailing list itself, instead of the individual person sending the message.
I find there are significant advandages in having some well-defined way to
identify messages from a specific mailing list, like a known sequence of
characters in the From: or Subject: fields.
That way, those of us with automatic response programs (e.g., the UNIX
vacation utility) can set them up in a way that does not respond to
mailing list messages, thus reducing the unnecessary bandwidth associated
with such programs.
With hopes that the ThinkPad mailing list can be so configured,
Jim
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