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Subject: Re: very strange mail loop found/majordomo ease of use
From: David Epstein <mareb @ csv . warwick . ac . uk>
Organization: Maths Institute, Warwick University, Coventry, UK.
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 17:36:26 +0100 (BST)
To: tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu (Jason L Tibbitts III)
Cc: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com (mju)
Acknowledge-to: dbae@maths.warwick.ac.uk
In-reply-to: <ufan2r7qv29.fsf@sina.hpc.uh.edu> from "Jason L Tibbitts III" at Apr 10, 97 00:57:18 am

Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>
>>>>>> "JW" == Jeff Wasilko <jeffw@smoe.org> writes:
>JW> [<jewel-request>] [<sgtmjrp@inetworld.net>]

>I suppose a completely enlightening message would be pretty difficult to
>cook up for an address this broken, but at least they get a hint of the
>problem and the address stays off of the list.

MJ's help message could give an example as well as using
metacharacters to help the zubscriber inclined to misinterpret
instructions. But I suppose there is always some new way to
misinterpret.

What I am interested in is whether mj would accept an instruction from
a list-owner to remove an illegal address like the one above. In earlier
versions of mj, mj accepted an illegal address, then refused me
permission to remove it, saying "illegal address". Not everyone has
direct write-access to mj's files, and there are good reasons why
people with such privileges should avoid using them. I hope that the
current version of Mj does not make
checks for legality of emailaddresses when carrying out instructions like
approve PASSWORD unsubscribe listname emailaddress

If emailaddress is in the list of zubscribers, it had better be
removable, even if it has embedded tabs and spaces.

David Epstein.


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