On Mon, 22 Mar 1993 18:02:57 +0100 Eric Thomas said:
>On Mon, 22 Mar 1993 11:58:45 EST "A. Harry Williams" <[log in to unmask]>
>said:
>
>>I am especially CONFIRM messages to the request address.
>
>I noticed that as  well and changed it in 1.7f so  that replies would get
>to LISTSERV.
Thanks.
 
>
>>Eric, what are your thoughts on checking mail for a -request address for
>>syntactically correct commands before passing them onto the owner?
>
>I don't  want to do that  because a number of,  ahem, lowercase listservs
>are using the  -request address for commands.  If I make it  work for the
>most obvious commands people will expect that it work for everything, and
>then how does one contact the owners?
Agreed, and the changing of the CONFIRM is probably enough for what
I need.  It is especially bad on the NETMONTH list.
 
>
>  Eric
/ahw