At 6:06 PM -0500 8/4/00, Dennis Budd wrote:

<snip excellent discussion of how Dennis runs his lists>

>In your case, your reasons (which I've snipped) for not wanting
>anonymous subscriptions on your list, with a different target
>community, make sense to me.
>
>I think your problem arises from people who are subbed to your list
>without having their names "registered" in the database.  I don't
>understand this process well enough to be able to help you.  The
>distant memory of my own experience, which I didn't really understand
>at the time, is that the first time you sub to a list on a particular
>server your name is automatically registered, but not necessarily
>thereafter.  I remember having to issue a "REGISTER" command to get my
>own firstname/lastname working properly.  However I do not believe
>that as a listowner you can issue a "REGISTER" command on behalf of a
>subscriber.

Well darn! That would have solved a lot of problems. :)

>I think the suggestion of deleting and readding the
>subscribers is the best shot.

I have deleted and re-added one as a test case. Now to wait for her
to post again.

Thank you all. I appreciate the discussion, confusion, and possible
solution. :)

Mary Siegel