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"David Boyes (Network Postmaster)" <556@OREGON1> |
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Message of Fri, 15 Jan 88 10:27:43 EST from <EWTILENI@PUCC> |
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>My mailing list has been flooded with error messages from UUCP
machines. Sinc>the SENDER tag has been changed around to use the x!y!z
format, LISTSERV
>doesn't pick it up, and it doesn't flag a sender of "uucp". Below are
two mor>examples. HELP! I'm deleting the offending names, but this is
killing my
>list. Two people have unsubscribed already because of it.
To tell the truth, I don't see why Eric should have to deal with any of
this stuff. There is a FREE set of programs for Unix sites that will
allow them to send RFC-conformant mail available (smail, elm, and dozens
of others), so there is no excuse for sending stuff like the junk in
your examples out into netland. I think Eric's code is doing yeoman duty
in even trying to deal with that stuff.
As far as the command stuff goes, that is still an issue of user
education, not of programming. I oppose strongly adding some kind of
expert system to LISTSERV just to circumvent users who don't have enough
sense to read the documentation or pay attention to what they're doing.
Like the saying goes -- you can't write a fool-proof program because
fools are so darn ingenious. At some point you just have to say
'enough'.
Flames to //SYSOUT DD DUMMY, please.
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