[plug] Unsub/FAQ logic handling...

[Mike]

Well that got nailed on the head fairly quickly, fact is though
unsub messages are getting through to the list, so mailman is
letting them through (but is it a problem)  - can't mailman or
some other front end handle some of the psuedo code I suggested
or at last form a basis for contributions to this issue,

Unless of course everyone on this list will really ignore unsub
requests from now on - in that case this email is a waste of time ?

<sigh>

Rgds

Mike


At 10:21 AM 26/3/2001 +0800, James Andrewartha <trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
wrote:
>On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Mike wrote:
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>> As there has been some b/w tied up with unsubscription issues,
>> why don't we start with a bit of logic to do something about
>> it - we can debate how smart we are after it works ;)
>> 
>> ie. I get the impression most people don't want to see unsub
>> requests sent to the list and the systems analysts prob
>> don't want to see suffix lines re unsub info as most
>> people prob wouldn't read it and it wastes b/w.
>
>[snip pseudo code]
>
>All good stuff ... but rather than reinvent the wheel, mailman already
>detects (from utils.py, def IsAdministrivia(msg)):
>"subscribe", "unsubscribe", "who", "info", "lists", "set", "help",
>"password", "options", "remove".
>in the subject or the body by itself and sends such messages to the list
>admin rather than to the whole list. Not that I've got any particular
>preference for mailman, it's just that it's an existing solution.
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>Note that re a later post, the message is only held, and can be let on to
>the list by the list admin if they see that it's not administrivia.
>
>Another thing that egroups/yahoogroups uses is a header that contains
>unsubscribe info, eg:
>
>List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:dgd-mudlib-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com>
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>This might need to be modified if the PLUG list doesn't have an
>unsubscribe address and only a request address, perhaps
>
>List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:plug-request?unsubsribe at plug.linux.org.au>
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>This header is picked up by recent versions of pine, and probably other
>mail clients as well.
>
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