On Sat, 24 Jul 93 16:21:55 -0700 Brent Chapman said: ># > Instead, I have always argued that the MLM's should become more ># > flexible in what they accept (my suggestions have been accepted to ># > some extent). ># I think this is one of the things that bothers me most: where ># MLMs could be more accomodating but aren't. I'll use Majordomo ... >I'm a strong believer that you should tell folks what they're doing >wrong rather than do it for them, because if you do it for them, >they'll never learn. This is a trivial enough case, though, that it's >probably OK to bend that rule. There's probably a lot of cases where pointing out the booboo but also honouring the most probable intention could be a Good Thing (TM?). Another nice touch would be to add "If you wanted something else, then undo what I assumed with [blah blah]". >On reflection, I should have done more research on LISTSERV and either >made Majordomo totally different or made it more compatible. The sort >of half-way natural compatibility that's there now just annoys folks. But it need not annoy people who could use an interface on their machine which took care of those diffs if/when present. Regards. $$\