On 11/9/00 2:30 AM, Russell, D (Duncan) <[log in to unmask]> wrote...

>I know I have seen on this list some problems with AOL in the past.
>
>When certain people from AOL try and subscribe to lists held here we are
>getting error messages of the form;
>
>---------------
><W> Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored.
>---------------
>Received: from [log in to unmask]
>        by imo-d04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v28.32.) id z.23.339753b (3963)
>         for <[log in to unmask]>; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 12:43:50 -0500 (EST)
>From: [log in to unmask]
>---------------
>
>I am going to assume that AOL is not issuing fully compliant RFC headers, is
>that correct. Is there any way to work around this problem ?

To the best of my knowledge, there is nothing wrong with AOL's headers.
AOL members interact with LISTSERV servers every minute of every day.

>This is an odd problem because I can see from the listserv logs that some
>users of AOL are able to subscribe to lists here.
>
>Cheers
>Duncan
>
>The full error message is at the end of this email.
>[snip]
>To: "[log in to unmask]":
>[snip]
>
>join gender-religion [log in to unmask]
>stop

Why is mail being directed to a non-standard address (jiscmail vs.
listserv)? Why is it using a non-standard command (join vs. subscribe) in
a non-standard format (email address vs. full name)?


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