You may be interested in how I solved the problem for one of our sites with
non-technical subscribers.

http://youthlearn.org/join/mailing.html

The original solution directed the user to the default join/leave template.
This was found to have too many options so it was reduced to a minimum set.
The email instructions page http://youthlearn.org/join/digest.html explains
the LISTSERV email  interface and provides mailto links for the various
actions.

Jim Walker

-----Original Message-----
From: LISTSERV give-and-take forum
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Pete Weiss
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 1:46 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Auto Update LIST users?


LISTSERV(R) *IS* your electronic secretary.  Let the *real* important
secretary do what she does best, and let LISTSERV do what it does best.

I'm hoping that most scientists (social, political, or "hard") can figure
out how to subscribe and unsubscribe e.g., to subscribe to listX, send an
"empty" mail msg to:

mailto:[log in to unmask]

e.g., for the lstown-l
At 11:39 11/28/2000 Tuesday, Jack Schmidt wrote:

mailto:[log in to unmask]

 > I have a secretary that maintains a email list. She is important enough
to
 >claim she doesn't have time to take a list of monthly list of generated
 >scientists and import them into the mail list.