At 22:21 05/28/1999 Friday -0700, you wrote:

|Invalid option - "KAREN". The valid options are GLobal, LOCal and NETWIDE
|(minimum abbreviations shown in upper case).

Many folks  think that the UNSUBSCRIBE command has the same operands as
the SUBSCRIBE command.  It does NOT.  The only operand of the UNSUBSCRIBE
command is the listname.

A related command processing problem relates to folks who include
SIGNATURES in their LISTSERV command stream.  LISTSERV "sees" the
signatures as commands and can't decode them. Best advice:

1) don't use signatures files when commanding email automation processes;

2) if you do, make sure the first line contains a double-dash followed
either by optional whitespace ending with a <LF><CR>

See my .sig for an example of 2).


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Those headers aren't "forged" just creatively massaged