On 11/9/00 6:06 PM, Francoise Becker <[log in to unmask]> wrote...

>On 9 Nov 00, at 16:45, Paul Karagianis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Then you obviously don't know how to do it wrong ;-)  I have truckloads of
>> AOL'ers on SJU's system who get along just fine.  What I see is a daily
>> trickle of blown "subscribe" commands that got to Listserv OK, but the
>> internal RFC822 "To:" is [log in to unmask]: with the trailing
>> colon.  One of my owners explained this as them using some utility that
>> built the subscribe request for them based on some message they extracted
>> from Listserv.  But I forget the details.
>
>Just a conjecture, but I bet that somewhere there are instructions
>that say something along the lines of:
>
>To subscribe to this list, send the following message to
>[log in to unmask]:
>SUBSCRIBE listname your name
>
>Perhaps AOL's mail software is picking up the ":" when they double-
>click on the address or perhaps people are cutting and pasting the
>address and picking up the colon when they do so.

They are cutting and pasting it incorrectly. AOL doesn't automatically
make links in email clickable.


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