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

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007, Bill Campbell wrote:
>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.

I just found another reason to use the ``List-Id:'' header in
preference to From: etc. when Jesse Cc'ed me on his post to this
list.  Two copies came into our system here, the one to the list
went into my bulk mail folder while the Cc: one went into my
general folder where I saw it first as I don't always get to the
bulk folder quickly.

Bill
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