Nit-picking, silly curosity question?
T. Horsnell
tsh at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Wed Mar 1 15:26:57 UTC 2006
>William Case wrote:
>> Hi;
>>
>> I get all the messages from this mailing list. Read them faithfully.
>>
>> Some of them come with '[Bulk]' as the first word on the Subject line;
>> some just start with 'Re:'. Why is that?
>
>Your mail client or your ISP is tagging the mail as "[Bulk]"; the mails
>do not arrive here, nor in the archives, with tags like "[Bulk]".
I thought the idea of 'Bulk' when used in a header-line like
Precedence: Bulk
was so that 'vacation' programs would know that this message
came from a mailing list, and would not respond to it with
the vacation message. Maybe [Bulk] in the subject line is
meant to achieve the same thing.
Cheers,
Terry.
>
>Paul.
>
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