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On Wed, 5 Jun 1996 19:46:23 +0200 Eric Thomas said:
>On Wed, 5 Jun 1996 12:34:08 EST LISTSERV Administrator
><[log in to unmask]> said:
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>>>This is because the contents of the template are just a few lines out
>>>of a larger message that is being prepared by LISTSERV to contain the
>>>reply to the user's command(s)
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>>Not true... with SUB_OWNER, that's the only message that's sent back to
>>the user.
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>Not true. With SUB_OWNER, this is the text of the reply to the SUBSCRIBE
>command, which is inserted in the job reply after the '> sub blah blah'
>line.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... that's all part of the same text...
Hmmmmmm... okay. Makes more sense then... but... bummer. :-)
>>I guess I don't understand why these were selected to be "linear"...
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>It's actually very simple. When LISTSERV needs a character string to echo
>to the user as the reply to his command, and people want it customized,
>you automatically get a linear template. When originally LISTSERV sent a
>whole, totally separate message, you get a regular template where you
>have full control.
Okay. I get it.
Guess Jim will have to find another way to pretty it up for the cop
list. :-)
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