At 03:05 PM 9/16/96 -0400, you wrote:
 
>impression that to subscribe to a Listserv or Listproc list, one
>sent the message SUBSCRIBE Listname Your Name .  But I was just
>poking around on LSoft's website, where it has its list of LSoft
>lists, and the instructions given there are just SUBSCRIBE Listname.
>
>        Many thanks.
>
>        Asleep in Maryland (aka Joan Korenman)
 
The correct syntax to subscribe to a list is SUBSCRIBE <listname>. If you
use this syntax, then you will be subscribed to the list:
1) under the name held for your email address by the listserver, if there
is one (this is a common pool for all lists at the server, and I believe
it's held after you leave, so you may resubscribe to a list later this way)
2) if no name is held for your email address, then you have no alias on the
list (the way messages are forwarded; they'll just say "From:
[log in to unmask]" instead of "From: Joan Korenman ([log in to unmask])")
 
Putting firstname lastname gives the listserver your name for the file.
 
Hope I got this right.
Philo
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