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Re: remove

From: John Abreau <>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 17:36:47 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Dale Ghent wrote:

> 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

My experience with this on my mailing lists has been a surprising number
of false positives. As list administrator, I frequently received 40-50
legitimate messages per week that the majordomo administrivia check
incorrectly stopped, and that I then have to forward back to the list.
I ended up shutting off the administrivia check and putting the
unsubscribe instructions in a message footer.

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John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix 
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