Re: Insulin pumpers headers

On 01 May 2006, - Mike Easter entered spamcop and left 
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> What I am not familiar with is how to IT-tech configure the actual
> software majordomo so as to both enable confirmed optin while
> maintaining the current human oversight profile management descibed in
> the length external email administration.
> 

According to the documentation I have on Majordomo and MajorCool, this is 
how it works.

First, I believe, but can't be sure, that the web form sends an eMail to 
the admin. The admin checks the subscription, then adds the address to the 
Majordomo list which sends out the welcome message. I can't be sure how 
this process is set up at IP, however I can interject here at the point of 
"add the address to the Majordomo list" with this documentation:

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3.7. Further Testing of the Configuration

...

To see if the aliases are working properly, try subscribing and 
unsubscribing yourself to the list.

[jarchie@kes jarchie]$ echo subscribe test | mail majordomo

You will receive an E-mail message containing instructions on how to 
confirm your subscription as well as a letter confirming that your command 
was successful. After sending back your confirmation, Majordomo should send 
back two letters--one letter stating that your subscribe request was 
successful and another letter welcoming you to the test list. The owner of 
the list will also be sent a message stating that you have subscribed to 
the list.

To unsubscribe from a list, send a unsubscribe command

[jarchie@kes jarchie]$ echo unsubscribe test | mail majordomo

You should be sent back a letter stating that your command was successful.
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So, either: confirmation is turned off, subscription is automatic, and the 
admin adds the subscription information (not needed by Majordomo) to a 
database or unsubscribes that address.
Or: confirmation is turned off, subscriptions are manually added by the 
admin.

It seems pretty simple to me to turn on confirmation and do manual 
subscriptions, and seems like a good idea anyway. Since they claim to do 
manual confirmation, the admin can simply subscribe the ones they would not 
otherwise unsubscribe, and ignore the rest.


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| Ric
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