On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:26:57 +0000, T. Horsnell wrote: >>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. Certainly Pine for one allows you to have a header line saying Precedence -- I have one; I remember putting it there, but not what for; I leave it only because that's easier, inasmuch as my fingers jump over it. Some of us may actually *use* it for whatever it's for -- or have a boilerplate line all the time saying "Precedence: [bulk]" -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert FC4; Pine 4.64, Pan 0.14.2.91; Privoxy 3.0.3; CXO 5.0.1 Dillo 0.8.5, Opera 8.51, Firefox 1.0.7, Epiphany 1.6.5 Remember I have little idea what I am talking about.
