> One of our listserv lists needed to change from NAME to NAME-L (to avoid
> a name conflict with a user, since some domains were being merged).  Of
> course, subscription requests continue to arrive for the old name.
> As of now, all that happens is that the potential subscriber gets a
> message saying that there is no knowledge of list NAME, and the request
> is being forwarded to the nearest gateway (UGA, which, of course, says
> the same thing).  The result is that potential subscribers are lost.
 
I don't know exactly, but it might be sufficient to include the
line
 
   List-Id = NAME
 
in your list header. This does of course not set up an automatic
notification, but users will be able to subscribe to both NAME and
NAME-L.
 
Regards,
 
Siegfried