on 2013-10-02 16:54 Bruce Walker wrote
Cotty, email list handling software traditionally accepts meta
commands within submitted messages to do things like subscribe,
unsubscribe, list the subscribers, etc. They are usually only
interpreted immediately following a newline. This list has had these
meta commands disabled AFAICT, but if one is recognized the message is
stuck in an approval-required queue / black-hole.
that is the reason the word was used in the email bounce, which stems from a
narrow use of the term "administrivia" for a setting in the Mailman software;
here is a post that describes what words will trigger the bounce if used as the
subject or the body of a message (i would consider just turning the feature off):
<https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2007-April/056435.html>
the definition Godfrey posted, on the other hand, is broad enough to be a bit
puzzling in context
between these narrow and broad definitions is a venerable usage in the context
USENET groups and mailing lists: administrivia announcements and/or chatter
about the workings of the list, as distinct from the actual topic of the list;
(e.g. "can you read this?", "please donate to support the hosting of this
list", and this thread); some mailing list FAQs have an administrivia section
that describes how to send commands to the list server; this latter may be why
Mailman adopted the term
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