Fwd: BOUNCE grand-rapids-pm-list@happyfunball.pm.org: Admin request of type /\bunsubscribe\b/i at line 7

[Joel Meulenberg]

Bill Ott posited (and almost posted):

> Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that majordomo
> only
> responds to commands sent to majordomo at foo.com, and not to a command
> appearing in a post.  In fact, I've seen many poor soles try to
> u-nsubscribe
> from lists by sending mail to everyone...

(Note:  dashes inserted by Joel)

Bill, your email was intercepted by Majordomo and "bounced" to me.  So
it couldn't make it to the list unhyphenated.  I too was surprised by
this behavior when I first saw it.

+Joel  

--- owner-grand-rapids-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org wrote:
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 20:00:35 -0400 (EDT)
> From: owner-grand-rapids-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org
> To: owner-grand-rapids-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org
> Subject: BOUNCE grand-rapids-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org:     Admin
> request of type /\bunsubscribe\b/i at line 7  
> 
> >From joelm at bigfoot.com  Thu Aug 12 20:00:33 1999
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> Message-ID: <37B3624A.F81772B7 at grpl.org>
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 20:09:46 -0400
> From: Bill Ott <bott at grpl.org>
> Organization: Grand Rapids Public Library
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> To: grand-rapids-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org
> Subject: Re: Recruiters
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> 
> > (Note that silly hyphenations used in this sentence and
> > elsewhere are to keep Majordomo from thinking that this message is
> a
> > s-ubscription or u-nsubscription request.)
> 
> Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that majordomo
> only
> responds to commands sent to majordomo at foo.com, and not to a command
> appearing in a post.  In fact, I've seen many poor soles try to
> u-nsubscribe
> from lists by sending mail to everyone...
> 
> I guess there's one way to find out:
> s-ubscribe
> 
> --
> Bill Ott      bott at grpl.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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