Re: Bouncing messages

[Andrew Witt <Andrew . Witt @ slma . com>]

>     So, is there any way I can avoid having majordomo bouncing such
> messages back to me?

The reason you are not getting much response is probably because this
stuff is laid out very well in the documentation.  I suggest reading
the comments in the .config file, in 'majordomo.cf', and the man pages
for complete info.  Look for 'administrivia'.

But there is a legitimate side to your question, too, and it has to do
with exercising some finesse when you define the filters (in majordomo.cf)
that tell Majordomo what to count as administrivia.  What I have found
to be most useful in regards to your specific problem is to set filters
such as:

    $admin_body = <<'END';
    /^\s*subscribe\s*$/i
    END

This way, when the word 'subscribe' appears in a sentance like "I subscribe
to Newsweek" it is not caught by administrivia filtering.  The expression
that was in the file when I got here was /\bsubscribe\b/i, which for my
situation was much less useful, since my users talk about subscription
quite often.  I did a similar thing with the other command words like
'which', 'help', 'lists', and 'who'.

Your situation may call for slightly different rules, depending upon the
content of a typical message posted to your lists, and upon how much you
and/or list owners want to deal with.  There is also the question of how
annoyed the list members will be by seeing too many stray messages.

Good luck working it all out!

- Andrew

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