[nycbug-talk] content of Sender: field varies

Dan Langille dan at langille.org
Thu Oct 18 22:44:53 EDT 2007


On 18 Oct 2007 at 22:38, George Georgalis wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 02:32:01PM -0400, Okan Demirmen wrote:
> >On Wed 2007.10.17 at 13:35 -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> >> Has anyone else noticed that the sender field for this mailing list 
> >> varies?
> >> 
> >> Usually, it is: Sender: talk-bounces at lists.nycbug.org
> >> 
> >> But sometimes it is: Sender: talk-bounces+email at lists.nycbug.org
> 
> here's my recipe
> * ^Sender: talk-bounces.*(lists.|)nycbug.org

Thanks.

> >> Where email is my email address, slightly munged.  I have never seen 
> >> this on any other mailing list.
> >
> >never? well, then nobody else does selective VERP - these lists do.
> 
> why? what's that? "selective VERP" ain't in google, yet.

VERP is.  I concluded selective verp meant doing it some of the time, 
not all of the time.

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