Date   : Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:22:23 +0100 (BST)
From   : gARetH baBB <hick.bbc@...>
Subject: Re: PC/Econet

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Tom Seddon wrote:

> >Broken headers.  I've had to put a horrendous kludge in my mail debatching
> >software to deal specifically with the BBC mailing list. It's not quite as
> >bad as IF list$="BBC Micro" THEN... but almost.
> 
> This has cropped up a few times on other mailing lists I'm on. It turns
out that 
> the problem is not the headers being broken... the problem is that you are 
> broken :)

The problem isn't with reply-to, it's just that there is no definitive 
header which specifies stuff is coming from the bbc list.

To: doesn't *have* to be the list address.

Sender: is majordomo@, which doesn't really signify anything.

Subject: is a silly thing to filter on, as [BBC-Micro] doesn't 
definitively mean it's a list post.

I use a procmail recipe of

* ^(To|Cc|From|Sender|Reply-To):.*bbc-micro@...\.co\.uk

in the hope that it will pick up 99.9% of cases.