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LISTSERV give-and-take forum <[log in to unmask]>
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From:
Roger Fajman <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:27:18 -0400
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LISTSERV give-and-take forum <[log in to unmask]>
>  >It's always seemed wrong to me that a list owner's choice of name in
>  >a subscription overrides what's in the registry, thus affecting
>  >future subscriptions to other lists.  It seems to me that a name given
>  >in an ADD command should be entered in the registry only if there's no
>  >name already there.  A name given in a SUBSCRIBE command should always
>  >be entered in the registry, because SUBSCRIBE commands are entered by
>  >the users themselves.
>
> IF there already is a name in the registry, either by the REGISTER
> command or due to the "priming" by a new LISTSERV host subscriber, should
> add'l SUBSCRIBE commands then over-ride?
>
> /Pete

Yes, I think so.  The registry entry might have come from an ADD command
when the user was not already there.

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