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Subject: Re: Looping, cascading Welcome and HELP messages (fwd)
From: bill @ celestial . com (Bill Campbell)
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA 98040
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 13:32:06 -0700 (PDT)
To: ben @ dha . unon . org (Ben Parker)
Cc: majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960927205944.12593B-100000@dha.unon.org> from "Ben Parker" at Sep 27, 96 09:01:32 pm
Reply-to: bill @ Celestial . COM

>
>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.
>
I unsubscribe people like this immediately and send them a message
asking them to resubmit the address when they fix their mailer.

Bill
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INTERNET:   bill@Celestial.COM  Bill Campbell; Celestial Systems, Inc.
UUCP:               camco!bill  PO Box 820; 2835 82nd Avenue S.E. S-100
FAX:            (206) 232-9186  Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676
URL: http://www.celestial.com/

Government spending?  I don't know what it's all about.  I don't know
any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he
doesn't know much.
		-- Will Rogers



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