Re: How to fix this unsubscribe/subscribe noise!

montulli@stat1.cc.ukans.edu (Lou Montulli)

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From: montulli@stat1.cc.ukans.edu (Lou Montulli)
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Subject: Re: How to fix this unsubscribe/subscribe noise!
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 94 15:11:26 CST
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> Being a www-subscriber for only 5 days I'm amazed and very annoyed by
> everybody sending subscription req. here.
> 
> Couldn't the mail-robot be modified to ignore all e-mail or redirect every
> e-mail that has the word "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" in it to the
> appropriate robot?  Just some thoughts.
> 
ListProcessor 6.0 by Anastasios Kotsikonas will return all mail
to the sender that contains any of several common command words that
should usually be sent to listserv rather than the list itself.

The Lynx-dev list runs this software and only one message in 6
months has slipped through.  Over 100 subscribe and unsubscribe
messages were correctly rejected!

:lou
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