Public may be the way I have to go. I'm new to this software, so I'm not
sure if there are reasons I shouldn't.

I'm not wanting to bypass the login, I'm trying to automate it so that
they don't have to key it in (or even know it) themselves. They
currently log in to our members only area using a last name and a member
number, the log in for the list being different would require them to
use some brain power they don't have in excess. 

E-mail searching would be way beyond their ability. (I've been called a
moron for asking which of our 6 lists they want to be removed from when
they indicate "the list"--I'm supposed to be able to read their feeble
minds.)

Ronnie Streff
Communications & Technology Specialist
American Medical Writers Association
40 West Gude Drive Suite 101
Rockville,  MD  20850-1192
301.294.5303 / 301.294.9006 fax
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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 3:44 PM
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Subject: Re: auto sign in from Web site

Ronnie Streff wrote:
> My members are technically illiterate and they may be able to write
but
> they can not read instructions. I currently subscribe them from my
> database software and control their subscriptions to 6 different
lists.

Since when have list subscribers read the simple instructions, in email
or on websites?

Since you want to bybass the login I assume your archives are private.
You could make them public so there would be no need to log in, and no
password requirement (or they could search via email, which requires no
password from a subscribed address, if they could read instructions that
is.)

I don't know if you can bypass the requirement for private lists that
there must be
1. a subscription to the list for the address
2. a password registered with the host site for that address

Any reason not to save yourself a lot of trouble and just make your
archives public, so the subscribers won't have to actually read
instructions?

Douglas Winship  [log in to unmask]