At 08:53 05/28/1999 Friday -0400, you wrote:
|> Because firstname lastname are vacant fields, can a subscriber insert
|> anything in here...such as an ID numbers?
|
|Yes. I think the only requirement is one character, a space, and at least one
|more character. You can experiment with this yourself.
|
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Remembering that LISTSERV "saves" this info and may generate it on
postings or when subscribing to other lists at the same hostname.  E.g.,
at one time another list-owner ADDed me to one of his lists with some
funky "firstname lastname, etc" which showed up in the strangest of
places on some mails that LISTSERV would generate -- as I recall, on
administrative messages.

Using two  asteriskes, separated by a spce for the name will allow the
subscription to complete.