Personally, I think list requests should not be processed in the body of the mail but, 
rather, in the email address.

Join list: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Leave: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

etc.

As for what M$ is doing - who really knows.  AOL, MSN and all the big ISPs do things 
to email that you have no control
over.

Howie

----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] (paul smith)>
To: "inFusion Support List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 3:21 PM
Subject: [iMS] Hotmail Problems


> I'm using Microset's FusionMail 2 List Manager template to process list
> commands sent in the body of messages.  I've seen erratic behavior from one
> identical try to the next.
>
> We recently saw a case where M$'s Hotmail processed a List Manager REPLY TO
> the List Owner and inserted text WITHIN THE INTERIOR OF THE BODY of the
> normal reply the List Manager sends, as illustrated in the following
> reply.  In the following "List Manager" is the end of the message the List
> Manager normally sends to the List Owner.  The 2 lines above it are M$'s idea.
>
> This try at a list command failed, but the very next try succeeded a few
> minutes later, with exactly the same command, with a normal reply from the
> List Manager.
>
> This leads me to wonder if M$ is inserting text like this in messages SENT
> TO the List Manager commands to process, which then causes that command to
> fail.
>
> Anyone seen anything like this before?
>
> Is it better practice to put commands in the Subject instead of the Body?
>
> best,  paul
>
> =========================
> Dear list owner,
>
> As you requested, the following members have left
> the List TestList
>
>
> online
> try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
>
> List manager
> =====================
>
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