From: "Loren Miller" <Loren.Miller@marketing.wharton.upenn.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 13:41:58 EST
What I want is if someone sends a properly formatted majordomo
command to the mailing list then majordomo should perform the command
as if it was sent to list-request. "subscribe" is a command.
"unsubscribe" is a command. "index" is a command. "info" is a
command. Only check the first line. If it is a properly formatted
command then treat the whole message as nothing but commands. If it
isn't a properly formatted command then treat the message as text.
IMO this would get around a lot of the problems I've had with
administrivia getting too many false positives, as well as reducing
administrative overhead.
Not all that great of an idea for everyone, about twice a day I'm
bound to see a transaction like the following on at least 5 or 6 of my
lists...
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From: ungrateful_person@host.domain
Subject: Get me off this damn list
How do I stop receiving these messages!
From: helpful_person@foo.bar
Subject: Re: Get me off this damn list
unsubscribe linux-foo
should get you off the list
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Great, now the person trying to help out gets gropped from the list
due to the administrivia regex matcher trying to be "smart". Being
that I deal with over 700,000 email addresses total with my majordomo
lists, and the above happens often, this isn't a good idea at all.
I've seen that letting the subscribers work things out among
themselves on the list is the best thing under most circumstances.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@caip.rutgers.edu
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