A simple cgi script with the appropriate job command can also bypass the
list header per se and not generate the confirmation.  If it is sent to do
a sendmail with the listpass word it won't send the confirmation request.

// JOB PW=XXXXXXXX
add Some_List-L [log in to unmask] Joe Blow
// EOJ

If the script generated a mail message to your listserver with the above
body, (obviously replacing the XXXXX with the list password, and a real
persons address, you can hide these in the script or make the person enter
them to be added), then no confirmation request would be generated, and the
person added to the list.

Kevin McKenzie
DCIT
Clemson University



At 05:21 PM 8/24/99 -0600, Ben Parker wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:37:02 -0500, Christopher Kosel
<[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
>>The text of that message states that when using the WA interface, the
>>confirmation is a required step. Is that to say that even if the list header
>>is configure NOT to require a confirmation email, that one will still be
>>required by the WA signup?
>
>Yes.  That is correct, if you use the L-Soft supplied cgi.  If you write your
>own cgi to manipulate LISTSERV directly you are on your own of course.  If
your
>cgi merely issues the appropriate email command string and mails it to
LISTSERV,
>then the behavior will be determined by the  List Header settings as per
usual.
>
>