>From: [log in to unmask] (Jose Maria Blasco) >Subject: Re: Frantically trying to subscribe REDIST-L >> FROM DB0TUI11(LISTSERV): * Your node is outside this LISTSERV's service area. >> FROM DB0TUI11(LISTSERV): * Your subscription request has been denied. > >I don't know why Thomas has set a service area on a peered list which is >incompatible with the rest of the peers. I've fixed that (ie no service area). Jose, thanx for fixing this while I was out of town (it really was a bug, not a feature). >From: "Eric Thomas (CERN/L3)" <ERIC@LEPICS> >Service areas are here only to prevent unwanted users from subscribing to >campus-wide local lists and suchlike. ... AND (as a side effect) to prevent the inclusion of the list into the global list-of-lists. From your explanation a while back (in February) regarding GLOBLIST FILE and groups that are not of global interest: >....However, this means that they [the local lists] will be entered into >GLOBLIST FILE and that people from everywhere in the world will try to signup >to them. This will increase the size of the LIST GLOBAL command output and >also the disk space required by GLOBLIST FILE. Thus you should change these >lists to: > > Confidential= Service Service= Local > >.... This change should be >made before you install 1.5n, ie NOW :-) And so I did for local redistribution lists. Unfortunately I have 100+ lists on my Listserv, and apparently I added the "Confidential= ..." stuff to a peered list. This was done unintentonally, otherwise I would write a much longer explanation :-) Thomas