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Subject: Long "auth" lines and short-witted users
From: "Roger B.A. Klorese" <rogerk @ QueerNet . ORG>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 10:02:29 -0800 (PST)
To: majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com

Since we've put up 1.94, I've found that we're having even more problem
with users submitting command lines broken into two parts by their mail
program; the "auth XXXXXXXX" prefix to already-long command lines has
them confused, and even my specific directions in my modified mail about
turning off word-wrap or stretching the margins doesn't work.

I'd like to propose we switch to sending the command as

	auth XXXXXXXX subscribe list-name \
		address

in the mail, and telling them explicitly to keep the space and backslash at
the end of the first line.  (A better command scanner would, of course, be
the best way to deal with this, but...)


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