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

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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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
> have presumably been bounced to the list admins because the list
> software stupidly thinks they are administrative requests.

That's correct.  Bruce and I have been bouncing them on when we see
them[a].

> I'd really like to see this "feature" turned off.

To be honest, I used to want it turned off, too.  These days (read:
now that I actually do a decent job of adminning the list) I'm not so
sure; there have been a number of silly subscription snafus in the
last few months.

> However, if it's not possible (or if the list admins really don't
> want to turn it off), could they please tell us what the rules are
> so that we can send messages that don't trigger this behaviour?

The rules are available in the majorodmo source code; the most recent
catches have been:

	/\bchange\b.*\baddress\b/
	/\bsubscribe\b/i
	/\buns\w*b/i
	/\bunsubscribe\b/i
	/^\s*config\b/i

These are Perl regular expressions, of course.

I'm sure these aren't all.

jason

PS:  The list admins are discussing this issue right now.  We'll get
     back to you.

[a] : Andrae has been doing this too, resulting in a double post a few
      days ago---oops!  Miscommunication!
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