[RHCE] Low Price Tobacco

[Mike Broome]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:49:57AM -0500, Lisa Lorenzin wrote:
> > Hay Jim - I feel your pain. I used to deal with this a little more sneakily.
> > If the email was legit and the user had simply used one of their alternative
> > email addresses, I would subscribe the new address (no welcome message) and
> > then set that address to "no mail".
> 
> as a list admin, i go back and forth on that.  i'm a pretty firm believer
> that users should know where their accounts are subscribed, even if it's
> currently set to nomail.  (the recent majordomo bug is one reason why...)  
> plus if it's a low-technical-clue list, it can be a pain to manually
> subscribe people on a regular basis.
> 
> my current practice is to reject the email and include canned instructions
> on why their post was rejected and how to subscribe...

Same here.  (Not surprising since I learned that practice from you. :)

Slightly OT, but I have just finished coding up a procmail recipe and
script to auto-reply to the users with the canned responses.  The
off-topic part is that this is specific to majordomo bounce messages and
won't work with mailman, espcially with mailman's web-based admin
interface.

Does a mailman admin get an e-mail about the bounce?  If so, and if
there's enough info in the e-mail about who and what, my script could
probably be adapted.  If anyone is interested.

Mike

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Mike Broome
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