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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
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