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Subject: Re: Looping, cascading Welcome and HELP messages (fwd)
From: Ben Parker <ben @ dha . unon . org>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 10:57:58 +0300 (GMT+0300)
To: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>
Cc: majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM
>received: (from ben@localhost) by dha.unon.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA17746; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 10:57:59 +0300
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On 27 Sep 1996, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:

> Another method is to have some sort of "no_respond" variable im
> majordomo.cf that will cause to ignore any message that matches.  This is
> better, but even then some autoresponders don't include recognizable
> strings.  I suppose this would let you break a loop; once you see it
> happening, just edit majordomo.cf to stop it.

But all the taboo_headers stuff appears only to apply to submissions to 
lists, not to majordomo itself - or am I missing something? I can 
certainly devise a regexp to catch the worst offenders if I knew where to 
put it in majordomo.cf...

> "master password" that only the majordomo owner has access to, and is valid
> for all operations on all lists.

Yes, that would be nice...

Thanks,

Ben




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