[Mailman-Users] Detecting Autoresponders

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Barry Warsaw writes:
 > On Jun 29, 2009, at 9:47 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
 > 
 > > (Sorry, forgot to include this.)
 > >
 > > On 6/29/2009 8:10 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
 > >> If it's replying to message with a Precedence: header (and any  
 > >> value) it's broken.
 > >
 > > You may want to take a look at section 3.9, "Quality information" of  
 > > RFC 2076 (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2076.txt).
 > 
 > Sure, Precedence may be discouraged, but it's pretty common practice.

Amusingly enough, the most recent update of 2076 (see
http://people.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/ietf/mail-headers/mail-headers.html)
remarks that "more problems with Precedence" were added in its changes
documentation. :-)