Only one thing to do. Test it. I just sent an email with the word "HELP" in the subject line and body. Let's see if it bounces.
Bob On Oct 28, 2010, at 12:23 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > That may not be what is going on. On many text-based lists like this one, the > word "HELP" is the standard keyword one sends to the adminstrative address in > order to receive an auto-mailing of the commands available when using the > list. It's a remnant of an older, text-based system, and two of the parrot > lists I read still use it. It is very common for users to accidentally send > the HELP command to the main list address instead of to the administrative > (server) address. When that happens, all sorts of things like password > requests, user account updates, search request terms, temporary stop > requests, and other non-topic emails show up in the main list, to the > annoyance of all the readers. > > There is a fairly standard filter that looks for possible administrative > requests, one of which is HELP, to see if the email was sent to the wrong > address. If it finds any of the command words in certain locations, it > forwards the email to moderation so that a real person can determine whether > the email was intended as a server/account command or as a valid list post. > > I know this is the case with the bird lists I read. I'm not sure about > Mailman (which is what this list uses) but it makes sense. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
