Since Dan moved this list to ezmlm, evidently my autoresponder
has been responding to the list. Since the list doesn't seem to send
me my own postings anymore, I don't get to see it. A lot of you have
written to me complaining about my autoresponder, and I finally figured
out what list it is (interestingly, no one bothered to say).
I apologize for the intrusion.
The problem is that the mail headers in the new list software
don't have anything common in them to distinguish the list as a list.
My autoresponder is based on procmail, and it uses a rather
sophisticated regular expression to detect mailing lists. Part of this
regex is a search for:
^Precedence:.*(junk|bulk|list)
... which is the most specific way identify a list. It also searches
for a lot of other stuff, including "owner" which used to catch this list.
That's the value of conventions.
I have written to Dan about this, and I'm sure he'll come up with
something. In the mean time I have added:
^Mailing-List:.*ezmlm
... to my regex.
Again: Sorry it happened. It should be over.
--Bill
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Bill Weinman <http://www.weinman.com/wew/> is the author of
The CGI Book <http://www.cgibook.com/>
Curiosity killed the cat, but at first we suspected you.
has been responding to the list. Since the list doesn't seem to send
me my own postings anymore, I don't get to see it. A lot of you have
written to me complaining about my autoresponder, and I finally figured
out what list it is (interestingly, no one bothered to say).
I apologize for the intrusion.
The problem is that the mail headers in the new list software
don't have anything common in them to distinguish the list as a list.
My autoresponder is based on procmail, and it uses a rather
sophisticated regular expression to detect mailing lists. Part of this
regex is a search for:
^Precedence:.*(junk|bulk|list)
... which is the most specific way identify a list. It also searches
for a lot of other stuff, including "owner" which used to catch this list.
That's the value of conventions.
I have written to Dan about this, and I'm sure he'll come up with
something. In the mean time I have added:
^Mailing-List:.*ezmlm
... to my regex.
Again: Sorry it happened. It should be over.
--Bill
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Bill Weinman <http://www.weinman.com/wew/> is the author of
The CGI Book <http://www.cgibook.com/>
Curiosity killed the cat, but at first we suspected you.