On 27 Sep 97 00:54:22 -0400, [log in to unmask] wrote:

>
>Dear Mr. Harrison:
>
>   I am having almost the same problem. Apparently someone in the computer
>center where our lists are hosted has implemented some sort of bottom
>banners (without the desired text) on the two lists that I manage, after I
>requested that VM file IDs be created allowing the storage of filename
>mailtpl files.
>
>   In reading Section 9.5 of the L-Soft List Owner's Manual (included
>below for your reference), I found that before I can put (store) the
>edited mail template file back on the server, the manual says, "the
>LISTSERV maintainer will have to create a fileid for the file before you
>can PUT it on the server. Contact the LISTSERV maintainer before trying to
>store your template file."

I saw this too and did exactly the same thing you did.
>
>   Yet, as with your situation, the listname mailtpl files do not show up
>in file lists. Thus I am not able to get, edit and "put" (store) the
>listname mailtpl files back on the server. When I attempt to get the
>listname mailtpl files, Listserv responds: "File 'LISTNAME MAILTPL' from
>filelist LISTSERV is unknown to LISTSERV."

This is exactly what I am getting also.

>
>   What could be the problem, and how were the mystery bottom banners
>created?

Unless he wrote some special code for it, I can't explain it.

Monday I am going to call him and ask him how or what he did, just out
of curiosity.

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Bill Harrison
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