List header metadata http://www.ideaspace.net/users/wkearney/archives/entries/000395.html There's an established standard for mailing lists and how they're supposed to announce their presense in messages. RFC2369 covers it.... wkearney 2003-07-23T13:05:28-05:00 http://www.ideaspace.net/users/wkearney/archives/entries/000395.html en-us Ideas 1 There's an established standard for mailing lists and how they're supposed to announce their presense in messages. RFC2369 covers it.... 2003-07-23T13:05:28-05:00 There's an established standard for mailing lists and how they're supposed to announce their presense in messages. RFC2369 covers it. This article covers it in a little more accessible manner.

Ok, so why bother? It makes it easier for your mail program to see if it's from a mailing list or not. Yes, it's one of those little things that only helps the machines figure things out. But by making it accessible to the machines in a predictable way it becomes possible for them to pull of some Wizard of Oz-like behind-the-curtain magic. Messages with these headers can be automatically grouped into folders or redirected to a different mailbox perhaps.

Do the mailing lists you read use them?

]]> There's an established standard for mailing lists and how they're supposed to announce their presense in messages. RFC2369 covers it.... 395 394 396