You wrote:
| I'm getting tired of those pesky s*bscr*b*/uns*bscr*b* message that
| certain "other" mailing lists seem to pass through to the list at
| large instead of capturing them at the list server, like SmartList
| does.
|
| Has anyone come up with a sure-fire method of dropping these extra
| messages, without mistakenly dropping a real message?
Sure fire? No. The following do help, although they're often too
broad. (I use a .safe rule to cover those cases)
The < 1000 is a useful hueristic. Its rare that unsubscribe
messages are long.
* (Delete|u*n*Sub(s| )*| add | leave | help )
* < 1000
/dev/null
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