Looping, cascading Welcome and HELP messages (fwd)

[Ben Parker <ben @ dha . unon . org>]

Just got told off by someone for asking this in majordomo-users so I
re-posting here. 

Thanks for your attention....


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 17:28:21 +0300 (GMT+0300)
From: Ben Parker <ben@dha.unon.org>
To: majordomo-users@greatcircle.com
Subject: Looping, cascading Welcome and HELP messages


I am using 1.94b3.

I have various subscribers on addresses that generate auto-responses 
(receipts, fax acknowledgements etc). When I join them with a "subscribe 
list address", the auto-reply to the welcome/intro message goes back to 
majordomo, which then sends them help, which generates a receipt, which 
generates Majordomo help, etc etc ad infinitum. Is there any way round 
this? The taboo headers seem only to apply to submissions to lists, not 
to mailings to majordomo itself.

Second question: a command like approve password unsubscribe * address 
doesn't work. Why is that?

Any advice gratefully received...

Thanks

Ben
Nairobi