Re: can't use the word 5ub5cribe in list posts?

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Ilyse Kazar wrote:

> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 14:25:05 -0500
> From: Ilyse Kazar <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: can't use the word 5ub5cribe in list posts?
> 
> Hello -- I'm a brand-new list member & do not have benefit of 
> archives (are there any?) -- I apologize in advance if this is a FAQ!

 http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/FAQ.html
 http://greatcircle.com/lists/majordomo-users/archive.html

Here is what Brent wrote about searchable archives:

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 How about Google?  Just add the following to your search terms:

        +site:www.greatcircle.com +majordomo-users

 That should restrict your results to stuff from this list's archive.


 -Brent
 -- 
 Brent Chapman <[email protected]>
 Great Circle Associates, Inc. -- Silicon Valley's IT Infrastructure
 Experts
 http://www.greatcircle.com/
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> I understand that messages sent to [email protected] are processed 
> as commands. But on my little discussion list, we are finding that 
> messages sent to [email protected] cannot contain the word 
> 5ub5scribe ??!! (I am changing the spelling of the word here, because 
> we are finding that's the only way to include this word in any list 
> post, so I'm assuming things might be the same on this list.)

Set administrivia to 'no' in your list configuration file:

     # administrivia        [bool] (yes) <resend>
     # Look for administrative requests (e.g. subscribe/unsubscribe) and
     # forward them to the list maintainer instead of the list.
administrivia       =   no

> How is it that a word buried within a message to [email protected] is 
> processed as though a command were sent to [email protected]?? Is 
> this expected behavior? Is there something I can change in the config 
> file so that any word is allowable in list posts?

Majordomo checks the subject line and first ten lines of the message for
administrivia.

> Thanks so much,
> 
> Ilyse Kazar

Regards,

Joe
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