I'd recommend that, unless you believe it is important for subscribers
to know about the change in their options, that the command for
existing subscribers be:
 
         Quiet Set listname repro for *@*
 
I did not include the "Quiet", and ended up with almost 400 copies
of "change of status" notes in my mailbox (as did the other owners
of the list), and an alarmed subscriber who had no idea of the
significance of "Set H-Urban Repro" [I posted a note to the list].
 
Thanks for the command, however -- I did not find it documented in
any of the basic documents.
 
Wendy Plotkin
H-Urban
 
 
On Sat, 12 Feb 1994 15:52:18 -0600 Natalie Maynor said:
>> 1)  is there a way to change the default options for my lists so that new
>> people are automatically set to repro?  It's easier than explaing 5 or
>> six times a day how to do it (dispite the fact I even wrote a form
>> message that I answer that question with).
>
>Add this line to the list headers:
>Default-options=Repro
>
>If you want to turn repro on for the people already subscribed,
>you can send the command 'set listname repro for *@*'.  I've found
>that 99.9% of the subscribers want REPRO=YES and ACK=NO.
>
>> Anyways, as listowner, it is possible for me to do file maintanence?
>
>I think the answer is yes, but I can't tell you how to do it for
>LISTSERV files.  Because of lack of space at the remote site that
>is already being quite generous to let me run lists there, I keep all
>the files here on a Unix system in ftp space.
>   --Natalie ([log in to unmask])