I wrote:
> >If Nathan reads this: it is very stressing (not to mention frustating)
> >to receive that when you are a new owner . I would suggest you add a
> >specific note about the "AAAAA" Invalid address thing when we try to PUT
> >the list back ...

And Nathan replied:
> I can see how 2.6 of the list owner's manual could be misleading, but
> with all of the other bloodthirsty warnings around about how it is not
> a good idea to get the entire list, I'm not sure that it would do any
> good.  2.6 does say that if all you're going to do is change keyword
> settings that it is probably advisable to use the (HEADER switch.  I'll
> amend this for the next revision so that it is clear that you should
> ALWAYS use the (HEADER switch, but if people don't read the manual
> to begin with, again, I fear it won't do much good.

I give you: Point, set and match on this ...

However when I volunteered for list owning, the previous owner had this
trouble ... It got him very stressed and even, if I underlined the
header switch for him, he panicked and started calling the LISTSERV
maintainer about that, etc ... He changed mailer since he took on the
list. I would assume that his old mailer (ISP UNIX provided) did not
defaulted to line wrap (Nestcape Mail 3.0 does not) the fact that he
already updated the list and could not at this moment added a
tremendous and stressfull "what did I do wrong"...

To solve this I add to contact a former owner from the dawn of time.
He edited the header without trouble to our relief.

So I take this opportunity to say to volunteer owners to think about
educating their successor to avoid such events... And be sure to
have a backup quiet: owner who is able to make the changes if your
PC blows up on you ...

And of course freely distribute the URL http://www.lsoft.com
where they can download the manual ... I do that a lot ...
along with the INFO command.

C U !
--
Eric Paul-Hus , BLUES-L