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Pete Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:24:11 -0400
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At 10:14 07/27/2004 Tuesday, [log in to unmask] wrote:
 >"LISTSERV list owners' forum" <[log in to unmask]> wrote on
 >07/27/2004 09:01:29 AM:
 >
 >> On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 08:52:21 -0400, [log in to unmask] wrote:
 >>
 >> >Is there any way for a subscriber to request (prefered) the welcome
 >> >message to be resent?
 >>
 >> GET listname WELCOME
 >
 >This returned "File "<listname> WELCOME" is registered in LISTSERV's file
 >catalog, but the
 >physical file is not present."
 >
 >They use the default mail template instead of a custom welcome message.
 >
 >
 >> >Or is it possible to have the owner resend it to a
 >> >particular subscriber?
 >>
 >> GIVE user@address listname WELCOME
 >
 >This produced the error "Extraneous parameter - "WELCOME"."
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There may be alternative syntaxes, but this one works for me:

GIVE filename.filetype rfc822_address

e.g.,

GIVE filename.WELCOME [log in to unmask]

The dot (period) helps

/Pete

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