Re: Server setup
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 13:22:03 +0200
On Mon, 7 Sep 1992 08:56:59 +0300 Juha Heinanen <Juha.Heinanen@localhost
said:
>no matter how good listserv is, there is a couple of things i don't like
>in it (or maybe these are just caused by bad configuration). one is that
>when a message is sent to the list, the To field doesn't point to the
>list, but to the actual receiver.
All you have to do is tell the server that you want unix-style headers.
The command is 'SET listname IETFHDR'.
>the second thing is that nobody has so far been able to tell me how i
>can remotely subscribe an alias instead of myself. for example, i would
>have liked to join the rare llt list, but not as myself but as
>llt@localhost.
*cough* Juha, the thing that is running the RARE lists is NOT my
LISTSERV, but a unix package which unfortunately insists on calling
itself LISTSERV. This is precisely what I was complaining about. Anyway,
regardless of the software that is being used, all you have to do is
telnet to port 25 and type your own headers.
I would like to point out that Juha is a networking expert, and that he
is subscribed to quite a lot of LISTSERV mailing lists. I will let you
imagine the degree of confusion that biologists, language teachers and
other non-DP literate users have to put up with due to the existence of
all these incompatible mailing lists managers for unix which their
authors refuse to call anything but 'unix listserv version x.y' or the
like (to the credit of the developers of unix mailing list software, I
have to say that a *few* of them kindly accepted to change the name after
I requested so). Sadly, the prime european user organization seems to be
patronizing one of the packages which ranks highest in terms of user
confusion.
Eric
