[H-GEN] Admin bounce for Anthony Towns <aj at azure.humbug.org.au>

[Bruce Campbell]

[ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and  ]
[ Unix-related topics.  Please observe the list's charter.           ]
[ Worthwhile understanding: http://www.humbug.org.au/netiquette.html ]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Rob Kearey wrote:

> Jason Henry Parker wrote:
> 
> > Anthony's message bounced because it mentioned the not-stable version
> > of Debian; this word contains the letters u, n, and s (and it was used
> > too soon in the message).  I'm forwarding it here (slightly edited to
> > get past the mailing list software); all replies should go to the
> > right place, so on and so forth.
> 
> Boggle, &c.
> 
> Can we please have a list of these inscrutable and arcane mailing list
> filter rules, please?

The patterns that majordomo matches in the subject ($admin_headers) and
first 10 lines of the body ($admin_body) of the message when a list has
the 'administrivia' option turned on are listed at the end of this
message.

-- 
  Bruce.                                                         |    BOFH
  Infinite Monkeys.  Infinite Keyboards.  I see no Shakespeare.  |  HUMBUG
  Usenet may or may not be an implementation of RFC2795.         |     PAN

	$admin_headers = <<'END';
	/^subject:\s*subscribe\b/i
	/^subject:\s*unsubscribe\b/i
	/^subject:\s*uns\w*b/i
	/^subject:\s*.*un-sub/i
	/^subject:\s*help\b/i
	/^subject:\s.*\bchange\b.*\baddress\b/i
	/^subject:\s*request\b(.*\b)?addition\b/i
	/^subject:\s*cancel\b/i
	END

	$admin_body = <<'END';
	/\bcancel\b/i
	/\badd me\b/i
	/\bdelete me\b/i
	/\bremove\s+me\b/i
	/\bchange\b.*\baddress\b/
	/\bsubscribe\b/i
	/^sub\b/i
	/\bunsubscribe\b/i
	/^unsub\b/i
	/\buns\w*b/i
	/^\s*help\s*$/i
	/^\s*info\s*$/i
	/^\s*info\s+\S+\s*$/i
	/^\s*lists\s*$/i
	/^\s*which\s*$/i
	/^\s*which\s+\S+\s*$/i
	/^\s*index\s*$/i
	/^\s*index\s+\S+\s*$/i
	/^\s*who\s*$/i
	/^\s*who\s+\S+\s*$/i
	/^\s*get\s+\S+\s*$/i
	/^\s*get\s+\S+\s+\S+\s*$/i
	/^\s*approve\b/i
	/^\s*passwd\b/i
	/^\s*newinfo\b/i
	/^\s*config\b/i
	/^\s*newconfig\b/i
	/^\s*writeconfig\b/i
	/^\s*mkdigest\b/i
	END



--
* This is list (humbug) general handled by majordomo at lists.humbug.org.au .
* Postings to this list are only accepted from subscribed addresses of
* lists 'general' or 'general-post'.