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Re: Headers in this ML



On Thursday 03 October 2002 08:54, Richard Kimber wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:17:57 +0100
>
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> > I would advise filtering on the X-Mailing-List: header, not To: or Cc:,
> > if the latter is what you're doing. This should be reliable.
>
> Thanks, but there wasn't such a header in the message.  No reference to
> the list at all, yet at the bottom of the message there was the usual To
> UNSUBSCRIBE etc. It's obviously a
> one-off and not a basic change.
>
> A bit odd.
>
> - Richard.

What probably happened is they hit Reply-All and sent it as the unsubscribe.  
So a message came here and one came to you directly from some other message 
you sent.

If it did not have a list header it did not actually come from the list.



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