[Mailman-Developers] Mailman headers (was Re: New RFC on using DKIM with MLMs)

[Murray S. Kucherawy]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen J. Turnbull [mailto:stephen at xemacs.org]
> Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 12:50 AM
> To: Murray S. Kucherawy
> Cc: mailman-developers at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman headers (was Re: New RFC on
> using DKIM with MLMs)
> 
> Who's going to be confused?  Not end users.[1]  I would think the real
> application is for an administrator or software to look at them and
> go, "Uh-oh, it's another Outlook|fml|... message" and deal with that
> agent's peculiarities.  As long as there's only one set of foibles
> associated with Outlook, and another with fml (perhaps not disjoint
> from Outlook and perhaps associated with several fml-wannabes as well,
> but consistent across those MLMs that emulate fml), you probably don't
> need to distinguish -- "MLM" vs. "end-user client" is something (ie, a
> foible) you can deduce from the agent's name and version string.

So your perspective is "why bother", basically?  That's fair, I guess, but at the same time, what's the harm in making the distinction?  If for some reason something down the road wants to indicate the two separately, this would make it easy.

If your concern is the cost of the process of registering "List-Agent", I'll do it for you.