--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 > ), 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 > >> > >> > >>
