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1. Send GET xxx (HEADER command.
2. You get a piece of mail. Extract to a disk file, xxx.list.
3. Use editor to make changes. Fill in password.
3. Send file back using mail command: mail listserv@ricevm1 < xxx.list.
The procedure is the same for CMS users. There is strictly no advantage
to being a CMS user for this, except insofar as RECEIVE from RDRLIST
might be simpler than extracting a mail item to a disk file (no need to
delete mail headers). Your non-CMS users must have read somewhere that
you had to be a CMS user to do it, and they believed it :-)
Anyway if you check a typical list header you will find that there are
several multi-line keywords. The current method does have the advantage
that you know exactly what the result will be: you have all the keywords
listed on your screen. A command based method could leave you with a list
that isn't set the way you thought it would be. And, for multi-line
keywords, it would probably be more complicated to figure out how to tell
LISTSERV where the new line should be inserted than to simply edit a file
with your everyday editor.
Eric
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