Nit-picking, silly curosity question?

[Bill Case]

Hi;

I get all the messages from this mailing list.  Read them faithfully.

Some of them come with '[Bulk]' as the first word on the Subject line;
some just start with 'Re:'.  Why is that?

Regards Bill

[Paul Howarth]

William Case wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I get all the messages from this mailing list.  Read them faithfully.
>
> Some of them come with '[Bulk]' as the first word on the Subject line;
> some just start with 'Re:'.  Why is that?

Your mail client or your ISP is tagging the mail as "[Bulk]"; the mails 
do not arrive here, nor in the archives, with tags like "[Bulk]".

Paul.

[Terry Horsnell]

> William Case wrote:
> > Hi;
> >
> > I get all the messages from this mailing list.  Read them faithfully.
> >
> > Some of them come with '[Bulk]' as the first word on the Subject line;
> > some just start with 'Re:'.  Why is that?
>
> Your mail client or your ISP is tagging the mail as "[Bulk]"; the mails 
> do not arrive here, nor in the archives, with tags like "[Bulk]".

I thought the idea of 'Bulk' when used in a header-line like

Precedence: Bulk

was so that 'vacation' programs would know that this message
came from a mailing list, and would not respond to it with
the vacation message. Maybe [Bulk] in the subject line is
meant to achieve the same thing.

Cheers,
Terry.
> Paul.
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[Beartooth]

On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:26:57 +0000, T. Horsnell wrote:
> > William Case wrote:
> > > Hi;
> > >
> > > I get all the messages from this mailing list.  Read them faithfully.
> > >
> > > Some of them come with '[Bulk]' as the first word on the Subject line;
> > > some just start with 'Re:'.  Why is that?
> >
> > Your mail client or your ISP is tagging the mail as "[Bulk]"; the mails 
> > do not arrive here, nor in the archives, with tags like "[Bulk]".
>
> I thought the idea of 'Bulk' when used in a header-line like
>
> Precedence: Bulk
>
> was so that 'vacation' programs would know that this message
> came from a mailing list, and would not respond to it with
> the vacation message. Maybe [Bulk] in the subject line is
> meant to achieve the same thing.

Certainly Pine for one allows you to have a header line saying Precedence
-- I have one; I remember putting it there, but not what for; I leave it
only because that's easier, inasmuch as my fingers jump over it. Some of
us may actually *use* it for whatever it's for -- or have a boilerplate
line all the time saying "Precedence: [bulk]"

[Bill Case]

Thanks Paul;

Then, that answer begs another question?

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 15:15 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> William Case wrote:
> > Some of them come with '[Bulk]' as the first word on the Subject line;
> > some just start with 'Re:'.  Why is that?
>
> Your mail client or your ISP is tagging the mail as "[Bulk]"; the mails 
> do not arrive here, nor in the archives, with tags like "[Bulk]".
>
> Paul.

I suspect my mail client.  My ISP is rogers.com cable.  I belong to
three or four other mailing lists and they never have the "[Bulk]"
added.

I suspect it is the result of starting as a newbie three years ago.  I
have blown up my Linux and Windows operating systems several times since
then and had to reinstall.  That's OK.  I chock it up to a learning
experience.  But along the way I have used Fedora List for help, both
from a newly installed Fedora and/or Windows (when I had completely
killed Linux and my hard drive by accident).

How would I get "[Bulk]" tagging removed from my mail client if it is
there by accident?

Where do I check?

This not a major issue for me.  It is just that as I learn stuff, I
would like to clean up any messes that I might have left behind me.

Regards Bill