Hello. I'm setting up my first couple of "real" lists on LISTSERV, and
have run into a situation I hope you can help me with. Actually I think
that what I'm looking at just may not work with LISTSERV -- but it could be
I'm looking at it the wrong way.
What I want is to make a list open to users whose e-mail addresses indicate
they work within our library. There are two types of e-mail address a
library worker could have: *@Library.UMMED.EDU (like mine), or, more
commonly, a Banyan address of *@[log in to unmask] When sent out over the
Internet, the Banyan address turns into *[log in to unmask]
Here's how I set up the list header (excluding the description lines):
* Review= Private Subscription= Open,Confirm
* Send= Private Notify= Yes
* Reply-to= List,Respect Files= No
* Stats= Normal,Public Errors-To= Owners
* Default-Options= Ack Daily-Threshold= 12
* Confidential= Service Validate= Yes,Confirm
* Service= LIBRARY.UMMED.EDU, *[log in to unmask]
* Notebook= Yes, /home/listserv/lib-disc,Monthly,Private
* Owner= [log in to unmask] (Norm Aleks)
* Digest= Yes,Same,Daily,0,Size(2000)
I believe the relevant keyword here is "Service=". Our Banyan addresses
don't match the pattern I gave, and I think this is because only the "node"
("host" on the Internet) is matched -- the username is stripped off before
matching. Is that right? If so, I think I can't do what I want, because
the Banyan gateway buries the library affiliation in the "username." I
could put "BANYAN.UMMED.EDU" into the Service= line, but then I'd need to
use "Subscription= By_Owner", and I wanted to avoid that.
Is there any way to match based on username, as well? Has anyone run into
a similar problem? How did you solve it? Or am I just not seeing the
obvious?
Thanks,
Norm
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