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. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email:/ URL: http://www.blu.org Unix Systems Administrator, Polaroid /
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