The ** is really "mi" to avoid list rejection..
If this list is active... I seem to have been purged from it.
The admin application crashes if you try to set a "long" string as a
rejection string. Where "long" is not very long and seems to be
about 64 characters.
I have set up a series of scripts to copy the daily digest to a
server, parse it into individual messages and then set up a search
engine. In updating this, I put in a test to make sure I was getting
the "right" number of messages out of each digest.
Of course this turned up that a log of folks use the digest split
strings of 72 dashes in their sig file. Also and even worse is that
people have quoted the entire digest when replying to the list. This
makes parsing a pain.
So I decided to ban the digest message separator string in the body
of a message.
That would be:
"----------------------------------------------------------------------"
(this is in quotes so it doesn't mess up digests either)
So I went to server rejection strings, pasted in the above string and
boom the admin crashed. If I start typing in dashes by hand instead
of pasting, I can put in about 64 dashes before it crashes.
Is this a problem deep in the admin/server systems or is it a simple
change of a #define to handle more than 64 character strings? Can we
hope for a 4.0.9a?
Also two nigiling little "features" that might be trivial (I hope) to
change. The digests come with "dos" line endings which are a bit of
a pain to deal with. This is not too hard to filter through a simple
perl script, but skiping that step would be more OS X/unix like and
allow tools to work better (ie grep, sed etc.).
The other is to change the digest naming scheme when they are named
by "date". Instead of <Name> Digest MM-DD-YY a better format would
be <Name> Digest YYYY-MM-DD. Sorting and processing would be much
easier, and I do have digests back to the last century.
-Scott
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