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. -- Adam Bailey | Chicago, Illinois [log in to unmask] | Finger/Web for PGP [log in to unmask] | http://www.lull.org/adam/