[nycbug-talk] content of Sender: field varies

[Okan Demirmen]

On Thu 2007.10.18 at 22:44 -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> 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.

well, i didn't mean "selective VERP" as in official terminology; it was
merely my own description ;)

yes, we do VERP on these mailing lists, but only at an interval.  doing
so on every message is, well, a bad idea; but every so often isn't so
bad, while providing the benefits of VERP.