One of our listserv lists needed to change from NAME to NAME-L (to avoid
a name conflict with a user, since some domains were being merged).  Of
course, subscription requests continue to arrive for the old name.
As of now, all that happens is that the potential subscriber gets a
message saying that there is no knowledge of list NAME, and the request
is being forwarded to the nearest gateway (UGA, which, of course, says
the same thing).  The result is that potential subscribers are lost.
 
We'd like to set it up so that listserv can automatically generate a
message that can be customized to that effect, i.e., "NAME has been
renamed NAME-L.  Please resubmit your subscription request ..."
 
It seems like some combination of having an "inactive" list and some
part of a MAILTPL file should be able to do that, but I haven't been
able to figure out a suitable combination.  Any suggestions or other
approaches?
 
Thanks.
 
Shahrukh Merchant
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