On Fri, 18 Mar 1994 07:22:58 EST Kent Fiala <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>On Thu, 17 Mar 1994 17:22 PST John Trimble <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>A while back I posted this job, which adds
>>a subscriber having a long address. It works for the address below.
>>
>>//SUBMIT JOB PW=yyyyy
>>ADD AFA-FIN DD=NEW
>>//NEW DD "/I=W/G=BO/S=JACKSON,
>>// [log in to unmask] Bo Jackson"
>>//EOJ EOJ
>>--------------------------------------
>> ... other lines from John's posting deleted by Kent ..
>
>You can't under any circumstances have an address-name combination longer
>than 80 characters.  This example works only because the address itself is
>less than 80 characters, so it remains valid even though LISTSERV truncates
>the name to "Bo Jack".  It would not work if the address itself were over
>80 characters.
 
Interesting information, but *NOT* the answer to John's problem.  :-)
 
This time, John's problem is *NOT* that the ID can't be added by LISTSERV,
but that the subsequent "welcome-to-the-list" message generated by LISTSERV
can't be delivered to the new subscriber.
 
Follow the normal procedures for contacting the "postmaster" at the target
site, and determine what the error message ("possible alias loop") really
means, and what E-mail address should be used for the new subscriber.