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Re: [WARNING] List headers changing



On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 12:25:19PM -0400, Daniel Martin wrote:
> Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Basically this affects you only if you are filtering on the "From ...."
> > line (not the "From: ..." line). A VERP is a "Variable Envelope Return Path".
> > It's nothing new, and is supported directly by the MTA on Murphy
> > (lists.debian.org). All we had to do was enable it from smartlist, and
> > setup a handler to disect and interpret the bounces so smartlist could
> > handle them directly.
> 
> And really, why on earth would you filter on the "From *" line when
> there is that nice X-Mailing-List header that Debian's lists so nicely
> provide?  (That reminds me - I need to go ask the list admin of
> another list I'm on to add a header like that)

Refer them instead to RFC2369 and www.nisto.com/listspec . List-ID, 
which is going to be published as an RFC sometime is available at 
http://www.within.com/%7Echandhok/ietf/listid.shtml

Anand


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