Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:01:40 -0500
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FWIW, this is what I have on trailing colons:
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>Date sent: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:03:30 -0400 (EDT)
>From: [log in to unmask]
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: (Fwd) Problem processing mail file from [log in to unmask]
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>Actually, I think Grant just spotted an even better one. In the
>canned message that goes out when subscriptions have expired, as
>defined in default.mailtpl, we find:
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> >>> RENEW2 Expiration of your subscription to the &LISTNAME list
> .re owners
> &WEEKDAY, &DATE &TIME
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> Your subscription to the &LISTNAME list has expired and you have failed
> to confirm it in the &DELAY day delay that you had been granted. You
> have therefore been automatically removed from the list. You can
> re-subscribe to the list, if you want to, by sending the following
> command to &MYNAMES:
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> .ce SUBscribe &LISTNAME
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>We've had a couple who got error messages about the "To:" address
>having a colon after it, ie "[log in to unmask]: " I still
>don't know why the aol'ers were getting quotes in there; flaky as AOL
>is, it's probably something to do with their software. But the colon
>seems to be a problem, too.
>
>For our lists, I'm customizing RENEW1 and RENEW2, anyway, so I'm
>adding a space between &MYNAMES and the colon. (Also deleteing the
>".re owners" since we've had several dozen send the subscribe command
>via reply. No one has actually written anything that looked like it
>was intended for a listowner, so I suspect it'll work better for us
>if replies go to the server.) Perhaps the colon issue needs to be
>changed in default.mailtpl, too?
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