Hi Art, 

You are correct, the message was misfiled. The software couldn't
determine whether it was brc-news or brc-discuss, and guessed
incorrectly. Thank you very much -- I haven't had a misfile report
for a long time.  I'll fix it; technical details follow.

One question -- your message had some fairly interesting custom
headers like "X-Post:" Is that unique to your list, or am I likely to
see similar headers on many other lists?

Jeff

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Normally, it decides by looking for matches in other headers, but
despite many human understandable clues present we didn't pick it up:

>Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The "worker-" prefix prevented a match.

>Received: (from lists@localhost)
>       by lists.tao.ca (8.9.3/TAO5) id TAA17381
>       for brc-discuss-outgoing; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 19:46:00 -0400
Not close enough to match.

>Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Again, the worker prefix threw the software off off.

>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We deliberately don't use reply-to when working on deciding a 
crosspost, as it is very often set to something weird (and likely
to throw of the decision). Maybe I should revisit that.

>X-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=subscribe%20brc-discuss>
>X-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe%20brc-discuss>
Don't look at these fields, also insufficient information for a match.

>X-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=brc-discuss>
Don't look for this field, also has worker- prefix.

>X-Archive1: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]>
I'm honored. :)

>X-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This one we can easily match against, and I'll tell the software to
look for it.



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