Tricks for moderating LISTSERV lists?

Tricks for moderating LISTSERV lists?

[David Z Maze]

I'm a moderator for an honest-to-God LISTSERV list at MIT.  The
interface to this isn't that wonderful; I'm wondering if other people
have tried to do this and have some pre-written elisp that helps them
deal.  In particular:

-- I get messages for moderator approval.  These are non-MIME messages
   which contain a fixed header (modulo a hex message ID), followed by
   the text of the original message.  Sometimes I'd like to reply to
   the sender and other list admins and say "no, we rejected your
   message"; is there a good way to do this?  (Even canned code for
   "strip everything up to a line matching some pattern in the article
   buffer, then reply-to-sender" would probably be a win.)

-- It'd be nice if there were a point-and-drool interface for the
   LISTSERV commands, and/or key commands I could use to say
   "(un)subscribe the sender of this message to the list".

-- Gnus shouldn't prompt me for a subject on mail I'm sending to the
   list server.  Maybe I can hack posting styles to generate the
   correct To: line and drop the signature.

Anyone done this already?  TIA...

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David Maze             dmaze@mit.edu          http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/
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