29 Jul
1999
29 Jul
'99
8:11 p.m.
"JS" == James Strickland <james@perforce.com> writes:
JS> I should send you the 14 messages totalling 42k of email which
JS> the use of the prefix generated on the list! :-) Many users
JS> seemed quite upset. Only a couple wanted the feature.
JS> Remarkable... I personally think it's useful.I completely remove the prefix for python-list@python.org, but for most other lists I keep the prefix. Personally I prefer them, but for my filtering software, it really is redundant information.
JS> btw, is there anything that can be done about mailers sending
JS> bounce messages which Mailman doesn't recognize? Most bounces
JS> seem to be handled automatically, but some aren't, and they
JS> seem to be all from MS Exchange or Lotus Bloats. Has anyone
JS> else seen this? I can provide samples.Bounce detection is pretty ad-hoc right now, being composed of gobs of crufty regexps. At some point we should bring sanity to this part of the system. For now, I'm just trying to collect bounces that don't get recognized. If possible, submit a bug report and include the entire bounce.
-Barry