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Re: remove

On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Jason Dufair wrote:

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| This is a pain.  Is there any way to modify majordomo and/or sendmail 
| to reject messages that come to  with remove as 
| the subject or as the only contents in the body?

I believe there is a option for the lists's majordomo conf file that looks
for "unsubscribe" requests being sent to the main list, rather than
majordomo@ or wear-hard-request@ .

ah, here it is (from one of my list's config files):

# administrivia        [bool] (yes) <resend>
# Look for administrative requests (e.g. subscribe/unsubscribe) and
# forward them to the list maintainer instead of the list.
administrivia       =   yes

But see, majordomo is looking for the words "subscribe" or "unsubscribe",
not "remove" like people here are doing, so I dont think that stock majord
will catch this. IMHO people should just read the notice they receive when
the subscribe. It should have all the instructions in it.

On thing that can be done, and is commonly used on other lists, large and
small, is putting a footer on every email message that contains
unsubscribing instructions. You'd configure this in Majordomo like so:

        # message_footer       [string_array] (undef) <resend,digest>
        # Text to be appended at the end of all messages posted to the
        # list. The text is expanded before being used. The following
        # expansion tokens are defined: $LIST - the name of the current
        # list, $SENDER - the sender as taken from the from line, $VERSION,
        # the version of majordomo. If used in a digest, no expansion
        # tokens are provided
message_footer      <<  END
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To remove yourself from the $LIST mailing list send a message
containing "unsubscribe" to .

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			-Dale G.

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