> > Why does LISTSERV think this legit posting is a missent command?
>
> I'm pretty sure LISTSERV looks much deeper than the first line or word
> these days. I would look further down into the message.

Well, my understanding has been that, for determining whether an item is
a list posting or a missent command, it looks only at the begining of the
first line, as it does to check on whether the item identical item has
recently been distributed or not.  That is why the autoreject message
instructs one to slightly change the begining of the first line (see below).

I didn't want to clutter up the list with the full rejected item, but since
you think that might have something to do with it, it is below.     Douglas
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Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 12:06:09 -0400
From: "L-Soft list server (1.8e)" <[log in to unmask]>
To: Douglas Winship <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Rejected posting to [log in to unmask]

Your  message is  being returned  to you  unprocessed because  it looks  like a
LISTSERV command, rather than material intended for distribution to the members
of the XXXXXX list. Please note that  LISTSERV commands must ALWAYS be sent to
the LISTSERV address; if it was indeed  a command you were attempting to issue,
please send it again to [log in to unmask] for execution. Otherwise,
please accept  our apologies  and try  to rewrite the  message with  a slightly
different wording - for instance, change the first word of the message, enclose
it  in quotation  marks, insert  a  line of  dashes  at the  beginning of  your
message, etc.

    [ Part 2: "Included Message" ]

Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 11:24:00 -0400
From: Xxxxxxx Xxxx <[log in to unmask]>
To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Survey: Online catalogs

Please send replies directly to [log in to unmask] .  A summary
will be posted to the list.

I would like to prepare a small presentation for the ALCTS Cataloging
Norms Discussion Group on the topic of what libraries do to enhance the
usefulness and visibility of their online catalog. I would appreciate
hearing from anyone whose library has found a way or is experimenting with
ways to go beyond a mere collection of electronic MARC-based bibliographic
records. Portals provide more dynamic access to online catalogs and
libraries are using the potentials of MARC in ever more creative ways--but
I would like to hear from libraries about specific examples of how they
have beefed up the online catalog. Quick questions that come to mind are--

-How has your catalog become more interactive with other parts of your
database?
-What kinds of hot links exist in your records to other sources or other
materials (what kind of sources?) that make it more dynamic and useful for
the patron? 856 links is an example, but are there others or is anyone using
the 856 in an unusually creative way?
-What do you do in a public relations sort of way to make students
interested in using the online catalog above and beyond just looking for
specific items or relying mostly on WWW searching? Do you have an
Adopt-the-Online-Catalog program?
-Has anyone colorized their online catalog display or animated it? Sound?
-Do you think the name of the online catalog plays a role in whether
students are interested in it or not? How did you name it? Do your students
speak highly of your online catalog and why? Or do they just take it for
granted?
-Are there ways for users to ask questions related to the catalog in real
time and online, to talk to catalogers?
-Any creative ways of using thesauri or schemas?
-Anyone using other metadata schema in their online catalogs?
-What kind of novel authority mechanisms are you using? Any of your local
invention?
-Do you exploit the potential of the 505 field or other fields in an unusual
way?

Do you in turn have any questions or ideas you've been toying with and would
like to throw out for discussion to the group?

Please send your answers to me directly, not to the list. I will do a
summary for the list.  In my presentation, if it comes together, I will
give full credit for the creativity of each institution.

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I still think this was autorejected due to the first line, but I don't
know why, if it isn't "send" as the second word of the first line, and if
that is the problem then *I*  think that there is a problem with the
program which tries to determine whether an item is a legit posting or a
missent command.         Douglas