These list headers are now on the Internet Standards track. I suggest that people have a look and let L-Soft know if you would like to have them implemented in LISTSERV. They provide an easy way for a list to pass information to an email client about how to perform common operations related to the list, such as unsubscribing or accessing the list archives. They sound like a good idea to me. == Forwarded Mail == Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 17:22:43 -0600 To: [log in to unmask] From: Grant Neufeld <[log in to unmask]> Subject: The List- headers are now an RFC This is a request for you to implement support for the List- header fields defined in RFC2369. This will make mail list access easier for your users. <ftp://nis.nsf.net//internet/documents/rfc/rfc2369.txt> The List- fields provide you with a standard method by which you can consistently describe your mailing lists' command syntax so that client applications can implement an interface to make list access easier for users. As they are adopted and supported by email software developers, the List header fields will make it easier for users to interact with email lists. The currently defined fields are List-Subscribe, List-Unsubscribe, List-Help, List-Post, List-Owner and List-Archive. They describe commands for subscribing, unsubscribing, retrieving help information, posting to the list, contacting a human administrator and accessing message archives. As an example, for the list-managers list, the fields could be something like: List-Subscribe: <mailto:[log in to unmask] Body=subscribe%20list-managers> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[log in to unmask] Body=unsubscribe%20list-managers> List-Help: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> List-Post: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> List-Owner: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> List-Archive: <http://www.greatcircle.com/list-managers/archive.html>, <ftp://ftp.greatcircle.com/pub/list-managers/archive/>, <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Implementation guidelines for list managers and administrators are available at: <http://www.nisto.com/listspec/list-manager-intro.html> Extended details on the List header fields are available from: <http://www.nisto.com/listspec/> A mailing list for discussion is available at: <http://www.nisto.com/listspec/mail> or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Information on the format of mailto URLs: <ftp://nis.nsf.net//internet/documents/rfc/rfc2368.txt> Thanks! -- http://www.nisto.com/ O- <*> MIME PGP: http://www.nisto.com/grant/pgpkey.kagi.txt 838B 977B 080E 1B61 BA78 D159 6ABB 8CBA A825 0CDF