On Wed, 5 Jun 1996 13:06:37 EDT Nathan Brindle said: > > In a linear message, most special instructions are ignored. Well, I knew that part. >This is because the contents of the template are just a few lines out >of a larger message that is being prepared by LISTSERV to contain the >reply to the user's command(s) Not true... with SUB_OWNER, that's the only message that's sent back to the user. > . . Generally speaking, with a linear >message you are providing the TEXT of the reply to be shown to the user, >but you do not have any control over the methods used for delivering this >information." This begs the question... why? >Among them are SUB_CLOSED, SUB_OWNER, and POST_EDITOR. Actually, I <think> >they're the only ones. Why? I guess I don't understand why these were selected to be "linear"...