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Bruce Dienes <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 9 Mar 1993 23:21:09 -0600
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>
> Well, I hate to bother you folks with this, but honestly, I tried to
>    solve the problem myself to no avail (I did the LISTFAQ MEMO thing and
>    the LDBASE thing to LSTSRV-L at UGA on "upper-case" with only 3 hits
>    that didn't solve it)... Anyway, here's the problem.
>
>   A subscriber (AIGEL@UNO) writes to say that she hasn't been getting her
>  List mail. Besides, she writes, she's now known as [log in to unmask]
>  So I go and look her up on the list and find her as AIGEL@UNO ALISON GIFF
>  So I delete her and add her as [log in to unmask] ALISON GIFF
>  and LISTSERV beeps back at me something about how I may not really want to
>  add someone with a name in upper-case. So I decide to DELETE the entry
>  and add her with her name in mixed upper and lower-case. When I
>  TELL LISTSERV DELETE [log in to unmask], LISTSERV tells me that no such
>  entry appears on the List. But when I REV the List, it is there
>  as plain as day with her name in all caps.
>     To make matters worse, I never should have believed her when she
>  told me her address because she mixed up the order of the elements:
>  she's really [log in to unmask]
>      I'm perplexed. Can someone please help? How do I get this false
>  all caps subscriber off of my list?
>
>     Thanks.
>
> -------**********======================================**********-------
> GENE V GLASS                                    ATGVG at ASUACAD.BITNET
> College of Education
> Arizona State University       Internet Address:[log in to unmask]
> Tempe, AZ 85287-2411                            [log in to unmask]
> 602-965-2692
>
If you run into problems with ADD and DEL, just GET the list, delete the
line containing that subscriber, then PUT the list back.
 
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