At 23:06 06/25/2004 Friday, Ben Parker wrote:
 >On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 19:05:12 EDT, Lydia Fish <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
 >
 >>but it will only accept commands from by buffalostate.edu address.  If I
 >>send a REVIEW, SUB or DEL command from either AOL address the LISTSERV
 >>software simply ignores them.


Not to put too fine an "edge" on this, but HOW do you know that LISTSERV
ignored them?


 >Possibly these addresses have accumulated errors and have been "served off".
 >That is, for sanity protection, LISTSERV ignores any/all incoming email from
 >those addresses which have been "served off" for repeated errors.  It will
 >still send list mail out to such addresses.

This is a good idea and carefully observe the output to see if you were
REALLY in the SERVE OFF state.  If not, then AOL is silently tossing your
command output on the floor.

/Pete