At  7:00 PM 4/21/94 -0500, JAN HORTON wrote:
>Hello, oh wise ones. I am doing a good deed and putting this problem
>before you.  The people who are trying to signoff of a list (ONE THAT I DO
>NOT OWN) I subscribe to (called WMN-HLTH from uwavm.u.washington.edu) are
>going crazy [. . . .]
>
>Unsubscribe WMN-HLTH Carol Walter
>Signoff WMN-HLTH Carol Walter
>[. . .]
>> UNSUBSCRIBE WMN-HLTH Carol Walter
>Invalid option -- "CAROL".
>[. . . .]
 
You should not include your name with signoff messages; LISTSERV just wants
 
SIGNOFF WMN-HLTH
 
Listserv knows who you are from the mail headers.
 
Eric, perhaps this is something that could be changed? If LISTSERV sees
SIGNOFF and a list name in the same line, it ignores any "options"? Or,
perhaps, does a search for names addresses on that line, and sends back a
message if it appears that the person is trying to sign off somebody else?
 
b&
 
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