Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 23:56:40 +1100
From: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au>
Message-Id: <9512291256.2852@munnari.oz.au>
To: drums@cs.utk.edu, jpalme@dsv.su.se
Subject: Header to label lists (was untitled)

Of Mailing-List Group and Mail-Group I much prefer the first.
However much they are currently mangled together, newsgroups and
mailing lists are not the same thing, and anything that tends to
even subliminally suggest they are should be avoided.

I am not sure we should be even considering defining new headers
here however, especially not for a new purpose like this, a WG
to consider mailing list issues would be a better forum.

But while on the topic of headers, is there anything we can do to
try to stamp out the practice of mailers advertising themselves in
X-* headers.  I rather doubt it, and I expect there are probably
people who believe this somehow helps them debug problems (oh,
that was sent from the dead-fish mailer, that always mangles the
foobar header, so ignore that value...) - but it would be nice to
make the practice stop.

kre