At 11:26 PM 2/5/97 -0800, Michael C. Berch wrote:
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>(For those of you unfamiliar with what I'm talking about here, Majordomo
>has a feature intended to suppress all those "unsubscribe me" [etc.]
>messages sent to the list, by trapping anything that even vaguely looks
>like a list server request and holding it for manual approval by the
>list manager.)
My administrivia filter adheres strictly to it's filters and
although it catches 95 percent of Administrivia headed for the List,
it hardly catches "vaguely looks like"s. Examples:
One subscriber spelled the *key* filter word "unsubscribe" as
"unsubscribed". The "d" on the end of the word defeated the filter
and made it to the List.
Another subscriber recently configured his unsubscription request
similar to this:
[(unsubscribe)juno_accmail-digest<clueless@domain.net>]
...as you can see, the ascii characters were all combined into
one el grande word, which was missed by the filters and was
distributed.
By no means am I complaining. This is a wonderful feature for
mailing lists and as I say catches around 95 percent of subscriber
administration requests.
I'm curious. I have no experience managing anything other
than the current Majordomo I use, but I was wondering if this
feature was a part of LISTSERV? Most of the Listserv Lists I
have subscribed to in the past were full of administrivia posts
by subscribers lost in the world of mailing lists. Is an
administrivia filter possible with LISTSERV?
Alan S. Harrell
ASHandRR@TGN.net
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