Hello

Before I ask my questions I must first say that I have read the list 
owner's manual (listownr.memo fetched from the LSOFT FTP yesterday 
night) and also searched today the archives of this list. Unfortunately 
all this without a greater success.

I own two lists on a Sparc running Listserv 1.8d. I generally have no 
difficulties, however, I have recently encountered two problems, so to 
speak.

1) My lists are international, but non-English. Many subscribers don't 
   know English so that they can't even understand the SIGNUP or 
   confirmation request messages. So I found it necessary to convert 
   all the texts the LISTSERV automatically sends subscribers to the 
   language which is common on the list. I fetched the DEFAULT.MAILTPL 
   file, translated a great portion of it, and stored back as 
   listname.MAILTPL.

   The manual says, that the form is defined by ">>>", a space, the 
   form's name, a space again, and then the subject line for the form. 
   I noticed that this doesn't work for the CONFIRM1 form, which, 
   eventhough totally translated, still arrives to subscribers with 
   English subject "Command confirmation request", which doesn't seem 
   to be defined anywhere inside the DEFAULT.MAILTPL.

   The question is: how can I override the default subject line for 
   such forms as CONFIRM1?

   The other question is: the original CONFIRM1 points to a 
   substitution &INFO. Where is it defined and where I can obtain a 
   full list of such substitutions (&INFO is not mentioned in the 
   manual, I think)?

2) In years 1996-2000 I owned a list on a VM/XA running 1.8b. I 
   remember that that machine used to provide the "STAT" command, which 
   returned various statistics for the list. Much of this information 
   didn't seem really necessary, but I seem to remember that STAT also 
   returned the information about daily traffic on the list (like "12 
   messages/day" or something like this).

   I must say, that I miss this (i.e. the traffic information) on 1.8d, 
   and the manual doesn't mention any other method for retrieving this 
   information. The question is: how can I retrieve the information 
   about average daily traffic on a single list from 1.8d (without 
   counting posts and days through the entire 6-year archive)?

CVV

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