[SLL] List ID (was: To Xen or not to Xen)

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007, Jim Osborn wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at  9:51:54AM -0700, Andrew Sweger wrote:
>> To whoever keeps fiddling with the list headers, please pick *one* and
>> stick with it (so I don't have to keep tweaking my procmail filters).
>
>FWIW, I've found the following to be pretty bulletproof for any list:
>
>* (^From|^TO_).*(owner-linux-list|linux-list-(admin|owner|request|bounces))
>
>My filters never noticed the server change, or any of the others over
>recent years.

Mailman and other MLMs provide a ``List-Id:'' header which is far
more reliable as From:, To:, Cc:, etc. may well depend on what
the sender put in their MUA.

Bill
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