On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:05:44PM -0500, alex wrote:
| I monitor several Linux forums and have noticed that Debian mail far
| outnumbers the mail on other Linux forums.
| I also notice that, percentagewise, more Debian mail is blocked by my
| ISP's SPAM blocker (Postini)
| than any other and if does get through, some of it appears as general
| mail instead of in the Debian mailbox.
|
| I'm sure that if this happening to me, it must be happening to others..
It's not happening to me.
| I believe that the reason is the way the mail is addressed.....The
| problem arises when multiple addresses are used.
| If the mail has multiple addressees with debian-user@lists.debian.org
| being a 2nd or 3rd CC instead of To or the
| first CC, this may cause the mail to not fit the profile that an ISP's
| SPAM blocker uses to determine if a message is
| to be allowed to pass.
That is not a very good heuristic, IMO. Spamassassin doesn't flag
ordinary messages (except for a certain person who has "charset=Big5"
instead of "charset=us-ascii" in their headers).
| If an ISP doesn't use a SPAM blocker service, the message passes but
| then a filter that directs the mail to a Debian
| mailbox may instead treat it as general mail, depending on how the
| filter is profiled.for Debian mail.
Use the X-Mailing-List header! It isn't wrong.
>From your message :
X-Mailing-List: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> archive/latest/192891
| What's wrong with addressing debian-user@lists.debian.org with To
| instead of burying it in a multitude of CCs?
The way some mailers handle "Reply To All". The "From:" header is
probably what gets put in the "To:" field and the list is stuck
somewhere in the Cc: list. There is no precedence for Cc: addresses,
so the mailer wouldn't care whether the list was number 1, 2, or n.
In fact, if the mailer lacks a "list-reply" feature, then it wouldn't
even know one of the addresses was a list!
-D
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