On Sat, 10 Dec 1994, Peter M. Weiss +1 814 863 1843 wrote:
 
> My bumper sticker:
>        I luv "auto-delete"
 
:-)
 
> It may  be   that SMARTLIST  encourages broken   mail  systems  or sloppy
> sysadmin practices by the very fact of being "tolerant"?
 
Could be.  That's always an argument when you get  into territory where the
computer tries to be "smart"   -- SmartList does a  lot  of fuzzy things  I
don't necessarily agree with (for instance, it tries to parse commands sent
to incorrect addresses, which  I think is a  disaster waiting to  happen --
but I digress).
 
BUT, whether  or not it "enourages" such   practices, they're there,  and I
think the bottom line is  whether  the feature  saves  the list owner  some
work, or  not.  As Auto-Delete is currently   implemented, many people have
chosen not to use it.  SmartList's approach, while it could be improved too
(of course!) seems to answer some people's concerns.
 
I  like  LISTSERV, I'm  not  trying to start  an  rwar about list managers.
SmartList  just  happened  to   have  a  currently-running  example of  the
auto-delete feature as I'd like to see it implemented.
 
Norm