John Lyon

Thank you John, for helping me to restore my bottom banner. Your directions
were very clear and everything worked as you said it would. I have now also
added a  top banner.

I also want to thank you for letting me know about the web interface. I was
not previously aware that this existed. When my list was created in 1995,
this option was not available. It certainly makes a Listowner's job much
simpler to manage a list.

<<Ron Moore>>
Listowner and Moderator
MOCK-GEN-L
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At 11:32 PM 5/7/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> > I am wondering if someone can give me some suggestions on restoring my
> > bottom banner for my list, MOCK-GEN-L? I have searched the LSTOWN-L
> > archives and haven't been able to find anything that can help me.
> >
> > My list, MOCK-GEN-L has been running now for almost 5 years and has had few
> > if any real problems. I recently changed the URL of my home page and
> > attempted to edit this change into the bottom banner of my list. I
> > unfortunately ended up with a corrupted MAILTPL file. I then ended up with
> > no bottom banner at all. I had two messages I wished to send with each
> > message which included a couple of lines pointing to our home page and
> > another pertaining to our archives. Of course the instructions on how to
> > unsubscribe from the list were also lost.
> >
> > I then sent for and obtained the file:
> >
> > DEFAULT MAILTPL
> >
> > By cutting and pasting, I edited out the corrupt portion of the prior file
> > and thought I had a good one that seemed to have all the necessary things
> > to restore my bottom banner, but it still does not work and I still do not
> > have my bottom banner back. I even confirmed that the new MAILTPL file had
> > been successfully stored.
>
>First of all you are going at this all wrong and have a mess. You have
>the entire DEFAULT.MAILTPL (that you pieced together) file renamed to
>MOCK-GEN-L.MAILTPL and are then trying to edit/add to it. All you need to
>do is create (PUT) a MOCK-GEN-L.MAILTPL with just the templates you want
>to change or ADD. In this case just the   >>> BOTTOM_BANNER  (I assume)
>
>If I were you, I would get rid of the  Validate= yes,confirm,NOPW
>and change it to: Validate= yes,confirm
>
>Do a blank PUT of the MOCK-GEN-L.MAILTPL file to delete it. This will use
>the default.mailtpl file off the server for all your templates and will
>assure you they all work. Then use the web interface to create/edit JUST
>the templates you need to. This will assure you of a non-corrupt template
>and will be much easier to do and everything will work. Then if you no
>longer wish to use the the web interface, just add the NOPW back.
>
>Then GET your listname.mailtpl file and you will see what I mean.
>
>--
>John Lyon
>L-Soft international, Inc.
>http://www.lsoft.com