> Someone is working on adding code to recognize these requests to the
> "resend" perl program that I use to handle messages sent my mailing lists.
>
> Steve Miller's old "distribute" program used an interesting algorithm.
> It counted the words in the message, and looked for words in certain
> classes ("drop or add" words like "remove", "drop", "off",
> "subscribe", "get", and "add"; "from or to" words like "from" and
> "to"; and "mail words" like "mail", "mailing", "list", and "dl").
> Then, if the word count was < 25 and it had found at least one word in
> each of the 3 classes, it assumed the message was a natural language
> administrivia request.
>
This sounds like an extremely large overhead to me - especially when
applied to *every* message to every list. What if you added the
LISTSERV command set, and the MajorDomo, and the rest! The overhead
would increase dramatically.
Regards,
John
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