On Sat, 20 Aug 1994 18:17:21 -0500 Winship <[log in to unmask]> said:
 
>I've deleted  well over  100 such extraneous  subscriptions in  the past
>couple  of years  and never  before have  I had  a delete  for a  BITNET
>subscription delete the Internet sub as  well, nor have an option change
>for a single subscription change both.
 
It has worked like that ever  since support for :internet tags was added.
Of  course, it  only  works like  that  when there  is  a :internet  tag.
Otherwise LISTSERV can't know it's the same address.
 
>I wouldn't complain about  it, as I think a delete  for an exact address
>should effect that  exact address and nothing else. If  I want to delete
>all of  the persons subscriptions  I can  use wildcards. (...)  But that
>won't change my opinion that a delete, or a set, for an exact, specified
>address should effect only that address and no other.
 
Well you can't really use wildcards,  because there could be other people
with the same  userid. There are many users who  are subscribed under one
form but occasionally  send commands from the other address.  If SET told
them they're not on the list, they'd get very confused (and call upon you
to update  their subscription). Similarly,  newbie list owners  would get
confused, or at best  waste a lot of time, if they had  to type the exact
address every time.
 
  Eric