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Subject: Re: Wow..I just saw it for myself - spam to confirmed list
From: Bob Bish <bobbish @ earthlink . net>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 11:49:45 -0700
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com
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At 08:39 AM 3/6/2003, David W. Tamkin wrote:
>autoresponders are likely to quote back (a) none of the received
>text, (b) all of the received text, or (c) a certain amount from the top of
>the received text.  So if the applicant is sent two confirmation codes and in
>order to confirm has to return only the lower one without the upper one, a bot
>is likely to fail.  Or if the confirmation code needs to be edited slightly --
>say it is twelve characters long, and it has to be sent back with the first
>five characters moved to the end -- a bot is likely to fail.

    With majordomo 1.x, replying to the confirmation message doesn't 
work.  It usually puts ">" in front of the text to show it's quoted and 
that alone will cause majordomo to reject it (unknown command ">").  Also, 
the confirmation code is not the first line of the quoted text, which would 
also cause majordomo to reject it.  There are plenty of humans who make 
this mistake.

...Bob



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