Date   : Tue, 10 May 2005 17:34:15 +0100
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: Beeb versus Master?

In article <428087CA.7020600@...>, Richard Gellman
<splodge@...> writes

>Ah! Now thats interesting, because my mail system sorts the mail on the 
>server (no, I'm not deviant enough to run Exchange)

*anyone* deviant enough to run $exchange on an internet-facing
mailserver gets all they deserve. :-)

>, and dumps 
>everything with [BBC-Micro] in the subject line into the BBC Micro 
>folder. That means the incoming email needs to have [BBC-Micro] in its 
>subject line before it reaches me.

My mail client is Turnpike.  This has a "mail routing" option which can
redirect mail from a list into a pseudo-newsgroup.  The help file
doesn't describe how Turnpike identifies the mail as belonging to a
list; however, I think it's likely to be using one or more of the
following header lines:

Return-Path: <majordomo@...>                                      
Sender: Majordomo List Manager <majordomo@...>                    

>Thats what made me think the list was being used as a spam-the-masses tool.

James is running SpamAssassin on a machine that processes the list's
messages:

X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on 
        avarice.corp.cloud9.co.uk                                       
          
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00
autolearn=ham 
        version=2.60