> >Douglas (who doesn't trust the web interface for list management)
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> Could you say more  specifically what you found not to trust?  I had always
> used the commands via e-mail and found that to be fine until one day when I
> PUT back the header.  "Something else was automatically changed" with no
> traceable reason, certainly no command sent from me, and caused mystery and
> confusion until I discovered and corrected it.  At the time I was advised
> that it was better to use the web interface.

I trust e-mail above web as with email one has a record, if one saves
everything sent, which is readilly available.  Something wrong with the
PUT list header, hmm, let's look at the sent file (and the header before
changes were made); oh, THERE it is, that's what I did wrong.  If something
performs other than expect I know that it is because *I* messed up, knowing
what I was doing, whereas if you do it via the web you can easily be lead
into making changes you don't want, with little ability to figure out which
change did what, resulting in what you don't want, who knows why.

Even doing it via email, some keywords take precedence to others, which may
be what you encountered here.  Doing it "by the web" might take care of it,
but you don't know what is happening, nor why.  E-mail is the way to go,
and learn.

> Since then, I have found that editing a file (Welcome message) on the web
> interface is also problematic.  Even basic key strokes do not always
> work.

Sounds like an interface problem, for you to sort out with your host site.
Like, I couldn't manage my VM/VMS accounts from a UNIX platform via simple
telnet; not only do both sides have to agree as to the signal being sent,
the must agree as to what the signal means.     Douglas