Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 15:35:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, postmaster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Majordomo and Subscribing Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990526152943.8020A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990526151351.C344@fisicc-ufm.edu>
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On Wed, 26 May 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: > I've not used majordomo myself, but could it be possible to autogenerate > a reply when the body (or header) of the message has just the subscribe > command? > I think the FreeBSD mailing lists now use something other than majordomo, even though majordomo@freebsd.org is the correct subscription address. I run a small (225 subscribers) mailing list with Majordomo, and it "bounces" all mail with certain words or strings in the subject or the first few lines of the message--i.e., this mail goes to me instead of the list. Often, however, it's a legitimate message that should be sent to the list. Then I have to take specific action to see that it does so. If it's a subscribe message, there I am with the job to do myself. The number of subscribers to FreeBSD mailing lists is--maybe 30,000 or so? (It was 20,000 a couple years ago.) So the amount of work in this kind of "bouncing" would be extraordinary. Annelise To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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