>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.