The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Jeff Abbott <address@concealed>]

On Nov 14, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Olivier Salaün - CRU wrote:

> We never considered adding this header field until your raised the  
> point.
> There seem to be some controversy though :
> http://www.greatcircle.com/list-managers/mhonarc/list-managers. 
> 199712/msg00081.html

Hmm.  That's interesting, and I hadn't previously seen it.  I wonder  
if that's a guideline designed to apply only to lists for IETF  
traffic and communication, though.

> What do your users use the Sender: header field ?
> Could they use either List-Id or X-Loop instead ?

It is, as Dale mentioned in a later message, mostly for the  
convenience of users who've already set up filters, though I suspect  
there may be some MUAs and some filter software out there that makes  
it easier to filter on Sender: than on List-Id: or X-Loop:.  Also,  
the user who brought this to my attention has several Outlook users  
on her list, and Outlook displays messages with Sender: headers as e.g.:

  From Sympa List <address@concealed> on behalf of John Doe  
<address@concealed>

This makes it trivially easy for those users to identify where the  
message came from.  Perhaps this could be a per-list setting?  Or...  
hmmmm.  Could I use the existing custom_header list option to  
accomplish this?  I overlooked that before, but it might do the trick  
for the small handful of lists that request it.

Thanks,
Jeff