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>>>>> "mts" == Mike Scheidler <c23mts@eng.delcoelect.com> writes:

    mts> Yeah, SmartList tries to be a little too smart in this
    mts> regard.  I set up a discussion mailing list for a psychology
    mts> class my wife was teaching last spring.  One person posted a
    mts> message with the word "description" in the subject line and
    mts> got unsubscribed.  The hardest part of all this was
    mts> explaining to non-computer people how this all happened.

One thing I think Majordomo gets right is that it won't take actions
like this when a -request command gets sent to the main list.
Instead, it bounces it back to the admin address and the list owner
can decide what to do.  It makes a lot of sense because this both
eliminates -request commands from polluting the main list, but allows
the owner to resend (with approval) any legitimate messages that just
happen to contain commands.

-Barry

