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Subject: Re: Mj2: Re: Making Mail Interactions Easier
From: SRE <eckert @ climber . org>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 09:28:38 -0700
To: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ math . uh . edu>
Cc: majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM, mj2-dev @ csf . colorado . edu
In-reply-to: <ufaaecnw73x.fsf@epithumia.math.uh.edu>
References: <"Roger B.A. Klorese"'s message of "Mon, 2 Oct 2000 08:22:11 -0700 (PDT)"><Pine.BSI.4.21.0010020820240.23010-100000@castro.queernet.org>

At 09:17 AM 10/2/00, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>2) How would this impact the ignoring of quoted token messages while
>    looking for a trailing "accept"?  (We always include the "accept" in
>    quotes, so technically it should never appear bare in the message unless
>    the user typed it.

Or unless you're a GEEK like me that customizes the server messages!
(damn nifty feature of Mj2, which prevents me from sending in a bunch
of enhancement requests and allows me to adapt to the sort of errors
my users are making by suggesting other things they SHOULD do)

I put all sorts of valid Mj2 commands in there, including some that
have real addresses in them, so the user can copy/paste entire lines
at a time instead of thinking so much. Unquoting them will cause problems.
Here's an example from my welcome file:
   approve $PASSWORD unsubscribe $LIST $USER
Note that the variables get filled in and would nail the subscription.

>3) Wouldn't this just cause more harm than good?  The quoting protects us
>    from ever seeing a spurious command in a big quoted reply sent to
>    Majordomo.

Exactly.




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