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Subject: Re: With taboo_*, is administrivia redundant?
From: Brock Rozen <brozen @ netvoyage . net>
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 17:14:49 -0700 (PDT)
To: Chan Wilson <cwilson @ splut_isdn . neu . sgi . com>
Cc: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>, majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199605232220.AAA15832@splut.meadow.net>
Reply-to: brozen @ netvoyage . net

On Fri, 24 May 1996, Chan Wilson wrote:

> > It might also be nice to specify how much of the message to check (instead
> > of the default ten lines).  There are some taboo things that you might want
> > to weed out if they appear anywhere in the message.  I'd use this for
> > application/ms-tnef, others might use it for more politically correct
> > things.
>
> The taboo_body goes through the whole body.  The administravia checks
> only do the first 10 lines.

Maybe administrivia should check the whole message? I frequently gets
messages where the person just responds to the message, quoting the whole
thing, and writes subscribe at the bottom.

I'm not sure on how administrivia works now, so I don't know how it would
affect the message if it checked the whole thing.

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