On Fri, 4 Oct 1991 21:14:29 +0100 Eric Thomas said: >On Fri, 4 Oct 1991 12:49:50 PDT RIEHL@USCVM said: > >>postmast@uscvm post master > >Somehow, this line gives me the feeling you are maintaining this list as >a free text file on LISTSERV 191, using XEDIT. This may work, but is not >supported. Many things may fail due to that. no. i do not do that. I subscribed to the list to monitor initial activity. >>1. i changed the send field from 'private' to 'editor,owner' (yes, i >> know its redundant). for the next half hour, anyone on the list was >> still able to post to the list. What is the delay caused by? > >No idea. If the cache data is older than the time stamp of the LIST file, >it is rebuilt. SENDFILE plays with time stamps under the assumption that >everyone bothers to set his GMT offset properly, which is almost never >the case, so if this is the way you maintain the list it could be the >reason. > it was the CACHE file. i made another update, and erased the cache file. it worked immediately >>2. I would like to have postings to the list by subscribers forwarded to >> the list editor. from the mailform, this looks possible because of >> the presence of a message. How do i do this? > >This should happen the way it is set up now. > this was another delay from the cache file. the test userid was getting rejected. he had only just subscribed moments before. thanks to eric thomas & bob kaneshige jr