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Revised LISTSERV forum <LSTSRV-L@DEARN> |
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Jose Maria Blasco <JMBLASCO@DEARN> |
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Fri, 5 Feb 88 20:51:16 CET |
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Revised LISTSERV forum <LSTSRV-L@DEARN> |
Some ideas that came to my mind after looking into LISTSERV's console log:
* A lot of people try, say, 'SIGNOFF X-L John A. Doe'. When LISTSERV complains
that only one argument is allowed, they try "HELP SIGNOFF". And this does
not work. Maybe a short (4-5 lines) help could be implemented for some
commands (at least for the most commonly used ones). I know that the signoff
example is a little stupid, but a) I have seen lots of people doing that,
and b) in other cases the command syntax is not so natural.
* A user does 'SELECT * IN X-L', then 'INDEX'. There were 150 hits, he gets
the first 30 as output, and then, since he wants to know more, he notes the
date of the last one and does 'SELECT * SINCE date' and asks for the index
again. Maybe a 'MORE' option could be added -- it's unclear to me if only to
the INDEX command or also to PRINT. By the way, DATABASE is pretty
underused, at least in my node.
* Lots of users mistake LISTSERV for NETSERV and vice-versa, so that I get
tons of REGISTERs and SUBSCRIBEs on NETSERV and the same number of requests
for NETSERV FILELIST on LISTSERV. I think that NETSERV and LISTSERV should
be mixed, people do not understand why there are two servers, and they are
right.
Jose Maria
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