On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 09:12:40PM -0500, Scott Schwartz wrote:
> ppiamdn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> | Unsubscribe
>
> I think that the next version of ezmlm should have a built in hazing
> ritual wherein prospective users are asked to subscribe and unsubscribe
> four or five times in a row before being allowed to really join any
> list.
>
> Majordomo can automatically bounce unsubscribe messages that are
> sent to the list. Nice feature.
>
> That said...
>
> The standard way to get on or off an internet mailing list is to send
> to <listname>-request, and to read and follow the instructions that are
> mailed back to you. In this case that would be
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Don't forget to *read* and *follow* the *instructions* you get back.
>
This guy has a different problem. Have not you seen his previous messages?
They were "rubbish" or nothing at all. I get more spam from this list than
from anywhere else combined. And cannot do a thing about it, since the list
gets these messages without the original headers.
How about this:
1) Dan should allow a few people to remote adm the list (he is obviously not
around a lot).
2) Limit 10 posts/day from any sender.
3) If subscribe or unsubscribe is alone in a line, bounce the message with
the help text.
4) If every line in the body of the message starts with ">", bounce the
message:
|bouncesaying "You were gonna say...." 822bodygreaterthan
Finally a remark: on a list I manage (well, ezmlm-idx), there are 169
subscribers, 11 of which had completely incorrect envelope sender address.
These guys cannot even get a response when they send a message to list-help.
Since these guys are developers of a program, they could fix the
problem---but what do you guys do with less literate people?
Mate
