>As list owner, I thought that I could delete people and have them
>receive the farewell file. What I found out was that the farewell file
>is only sent in response to a "signoff" request. The only way to have
>departing members receive a notice other than the default template is to
>manually send it to them; of course, I could also edit the default
>template.

Drew, I don't think this is accurate.  I used a farewell file for quite
some time (and plan to go back to it when I have time to do some drastic
updating), and I handled about 90% of the deletions by sending commands
myself.

Sherry Beauchamp


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