[Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on postedaddresses...

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:09:35AM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> Mailman's interface to Pipermail is what does this check, currently
> defined as:
> 
>     X-No-Archive: yes
>     X-Archive: no
> 
> prevents the message from being archived in any way.  I don't think
> there are standards for this particular header (else, why would it be
> an X- header?), so I'm wondering if I understand common practice well
> enough.  I.e. should the presence of X-No-Archive: itself, regardless
> of value, prevent archiving of the message?

This depends on which side of the "enabler" argument, discussed ad
nauseum last week, you come down on.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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