At 01:16 PM 1/2/97 -0500, Sherry LaCoursiere wrote:
>On  2 Jan 97 at 10:04, Sherry Beauchamp wrote:
>
>> To help you avoid any problems in the future, let me just say that
>> the process you've outlined only works when one is updating a
>> subscriber's name, and then only if you duplicate *exactly* the
>> email address of the subscriber as it appears on your listserv.
>
>Good point to remember.  I have never done it where the domain change
>was needed, so I'm glad to know this.
>
>Also a good reminder to be careful of upper- and lower-case letters,
>although I have noticed that someone I subscribe in lowercase gets
>converted by my server to upper-case automatically-- e.g., I sign up
>[log in to unmask], who then gets listed as JOESCHMOE@AOLCOM somehow.
 
I hope not!
 
1. That should be @AOL.COM
 
2. The "JoeSchmoe" should not be changed -- check that again.  Usernames
are allowed to be case-sensitive, and if that's changed it might not
work.  However, everything to the right of the "@" is case-insensitive,
and I think LISTSERV makes them upper-case just for ease in sorting for
distribution.  (I'd have preferred it chose lower-case but that's just
aesthetics.)
 
>Not that it really matters, it's just that any of his postings would
>appear that way.
 
It does potentially matter if the stuff left of the "@" is changed,
although I think AOL doesn't care (most ISP's don't care any more).
 
Cheers,
Stan Ryckman ([log in to unmask])