D54%TRANAVM1@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (suleyman AYDIN) (01/31/91)
Is there a possibility to write a program which filters and DELETES the "confirm ME..please..etc.." like mails which are sent to the discussion lists ? Ps: I, personally,do not have any single idea about the possibility(ies) of this kind of software, because i am only user and do not know anything about programming. (even do not know BASIC, but i do not worry about it) sincerely, suleyman AYDIN (trying to become a pharmacologist) medicinal plants res. ctr., univ.anatolia, tepebasi 26470 eskisehir / TURKEY d54@TRanaVM1.EARN/Bitnet
harper@finsun.csc.fi (Robert Harper) (02/02/91)
In <9101311345.AA14228@genbank.bio.net> D54%TRANAVM1@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (suleyman AYDIN) writes:
sa>Is there a possibility to write a program which filters and DELETES the
sa>"confirm ME..please..etc.." like mails which are sent to the discussion
sa>lists ?
sa>suleyman AYDIN (trying to become a pharmacologist)
sa>medicinal plants res. ctr., univ.anatolia, tepebasi 26470 eskisehir / TURKEY
sa>d54@TRanaVM1.EARN/Bitnet
The simples solution is to switch this feature off by altering the
list header for LISTSERV so that the default will be RENEW=NONE.
At the moment the list headers are being reorganised, and hopefully
nobody will be asked to confirm their subscriptions ever again.
This will make more work for yours truly since I then have to hunt down
dead mailboxes, but that can't be any worse than writing lots of
explainations about the workings of LISTSERV.
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Another thought on the Confirm Event, which is that since all the mail sent is by people who are still struggling with the listserv concept (and many, including your truely, found out by word of mouth and experiment, doubtless to the irritation of others), which is that..... if all the mail messages were also bounced to the sender (my memory is prompting with having to send a /ACK command with the Subscibe in the first place) then perhaps they would get the message that something was wrong and that they had not confirmed (subscribed, unsubscibed etc), rather than being the only person on the net who didn't know! Its just a thought Rob, Sincerely, Jasper Rees Jrees@Vax.Oxford.Ac.UK Seqtest@Wccf.MIT.edu