Re: unsubscriptions explained

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Most helpful, for now I think I'll just pop the "--" at the beginning of
any message I think might put me at risk.
Maybe the style "Hi, So and so! --" would work fine too...IT has been a
minor pain not knowing, thanks!
John :-#)#
Paul_Labuda wrote:
> 
> It doesn't like words like get or put at the beginning of a message.
> Here's a list of words that listproc will likely choke upon:
> 
> ... SEArch, GET, AFD, HELp, LISts, SUBscribe, SET, WHIch, PURge, and INDex ...
> 
> I hope that leading ellipsis will allow this message to get through.  :-)
> Basically, any time the listproc program thinks you're trying to send a
> command to it, even to list address (you're supposed to send commands to
> listproc@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu, not vectorlist@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu), it
> will bounce your message back to you and show you in lovely CAPITAL LETTERS
> what your offending line was.  It doesn't happen too often that the stupid
> program thinks you're trying to send it a command, but it does admittedly
> happen often enough to be annoying.
> 
> One lovely way to stymie the stupid command interpreter, which I think
> shouldn't be scanning the vectorlist at all, anyway, is to start your
> message, on the first line, with:
> 
> --
> 
> That will tell listproc not to process anything following the "--."
> 
> - Paul
> 
> John Robertson writes:
> >
> >Paul, what are the words that are "illegal" to use in the first line or
> >two of a message? I have found that the word "p u t" causes a
> >bounce-back from the list server, what other words?
> >
> >John :-#)#
> >
> >Paul_Labuda wrote:
> >>
> >> Fellow vectorheads,
> >>
> >> Well, here's an explanation of what happened to Clay and others with the
> >> automatic deletions.  Nobody appears to have hacked headers to delete
> >> people.  When you're deleted, it's almost always because your mailserver
> >> returns mail with a "permanent" error.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, if your mailserver hiccups at all (Clay's appears to have
> >> done so thrice), you might be auto-deleted by listproc.
> >>
> >> - Paul Labuda
> >>   labuda@dell.com
> >>
> >>