On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Sherry Beauchamp wrote:

>We have about 200+ mailing lists on our server.  I want to change the
>verbiage of a couple of the default messages, but I don't want to put
>a new mail template for each list.  How do I do this?  I tried
>GETting the DEFAULT MAILTPL, editing it, and PUTting it, but received
>the following message:
>
>>It is not possible to update file "DEFAULT MAILTPL", because it is
>>maintained internally by LISTSERV.
>
>What am I doing wrong?
>
>Sherry Beauchamp
>

I think what you're doing wrong is assuming you can do what you want
to do with one MAILTPL.

Unless a site has defined a language-dependent template, which will
then also be searched if "Language=" is set to the name of the
language, you have "DEFAULT MAILTPL", which is built in to Listserv
and cannot be changed, and "<listname> MAILTPL", which is totally
defined by the list owner.  For web templates, the Listserv maintainer
can define a site-wide file as well, but for mail templates the only
customization is on a list-by-list basis.

Dennis