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Re: Filtering of commands from list
From:
Nathan Brindle <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Thu, 11 Feb 1999 08:56:07 EST
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Note also that not every command is filtered.  The filter is very liberal
in what it allows through, for the simple reason that it is difficult to
determine when (for instance) "set" is meant as a command word as opposed
to when "set" is actually part of the first sentence of the message, ie,
"I was trying to set my project to do x when y".  But if you type
"unsubscribe" in the first line (assuming that it really <is> the first
line--no MIME stuff coming before it), LISTSERV <will> bounce the message
back to you.

If we were to tighten up the filter there would probably be as many
complaints asking us to loosen it up as there are now asking us to
tighten it up :)

One thing I discovered just last week is that LISTSERV will not ignore
the MIME bits in a message for the purposes of filtering the first line
unless you have "Language= NoMIME" set in the list header (which of course
requires 1.8d).  When "Language= NoMIME" is set, the MIME bits get stripped
and the first line of what the user actually types is seen by LISTSERV as
the first line of the message.  Otherwise LISTSERV reads the first line
of the first MIME part delimiter as the first line of the message.

Nathan

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