Sun, 21 Aug 1994 16:56:48 +0200
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On Sat, 20 Aug 1994 18:17:21 -0500 Winship <[log in to unmask]> said:
>I've deleted well over 100 such extraneous subscriptions in the past
>couple of years and never before have I had a delete for a BITNET
>subscription delete the Internet sub as well, nor have an option change
>for a single subscription change both.
It has worked like that ever since support for :internet tags was added.
Of course, it only works like that when there is a :internet tag.
Otherwise LISTSERV can't know it's the same address.
>I wouldn't complain about it, as I think a delete for an exact address
>should effect that exact address and nothing else. If I want to delete
>all of the persons subscriptions I can use wildcards. (...) But that
>won't change my opinion that a delete, or a set, for an exact, specified
>address should effect only that address and no other.
Well you can't really use wildcards, because there could be other people
with the same userid. There are many users who are subscribed under one
form but occasionally send commands from the other address. If SET told
them they're not on the list, they'd get very confused (and call upon you
to update their subscription). Similarly, newbie list owners would get
confused, or at best waste a lot of time, if they had to type the exact
address every time.
Eric
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