[H-GEN] How can I send a message with s u b s c r i b e in the text?

Greg Black gjb at gbch.net
Tue Nov 12 05:24:40 EST 2002


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Bruce Campbell wrote:

| On 29 Oct 2002, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
| 
| > Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> writes:
| >
| > > On a couple of recent occasions, I have seen messages (from me
| > > and others) delayed for many hours before being sent out.  They
| > > have all had some subset of s u b s c r i b e[1] in the text and
| > > I'd really like to see this "feature" turned off.
| 
| > PS:  The list admins are discussing this issue right now.  We'll get
| >      back to you.
| 
| After we had a look at the various patterns, I've made changes to certain
| patterns to mostly bind them to the start of the line (plus possible
| whitespace), and cut the number of lines that majordomo checks for such
| from 10 to 3.

Nice work guys.  Thanks.

Greg

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