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Erik Price eprice at ptc.com
Mon Mar 10 11:58:19 EST 2003


pll at lanminds.com wrote:

> Regardless, AFAIK, all lists managed by MailMan add the following 
> lines to the header:
> 
> 	X-BeenThere:
> 	X-Mailman-Version:
> 	List-Help:
> 	List-Post:
> 	List-Subscribe: 
> 	List-Id:
> 	List-Unsubscribe: 
> 	List-Archive:

I really like mailing lists that use MailMan and I think it's pretty 
great software.  Also, I use those headers for filtering my email to 
specific folders in my mail client.

> If you've ever 
> been a list manager and inundated with requests from subscribers to 
> 'please unsubscribe me from this list', then you'd quickly come to 
> appreciate these footers.

It's funny b/c I see these happen all the time on lists that /do/ offer 
the footer.


Erik




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