Dave Spicer ([log in to unmask] co-owner) wrote:
>
>On Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:21:20 GMT, I wrote:
>
>>I'll email him the relevant couple of sentences from the "you have
>>been added..." message and let him try again.
>
>Well, I did, but I added one sentence, so it now reads:
>
>You  may leave  the list  at  any time  by sending  a "SIGNOFF
>ASPERGER" command to [log in to unmask]
>This is put in the body of the message, not the "Subject" line.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>Maybe this was the problem - that he was sending a blank message to
>Listserv with the intended command in the Subject line.  Could the
>Welcome message be changed to add the sentence that clarifies this?
>
>- Dave, realizing the directions could be clearer...

Agreed!  The "You have been added" message (as opposed to our own
Welcome message -- currently new people get both) is canned, and
I'll have to peruse the list owner's manual (oooh, oooh, Freudian
negligee, I typed "lost owner" instead of "list owner" :-) ) to
see how to customize it.

I've actually taken the liberty of cc'ing this to LSTOWN-L and
SJUOWNER.  Perhaps someone on either of those lists knows offhand how
we'd go about adding that sentence to the canned "You have been added"
message, saving me a bit of research.

Better yet, maybe someone at SJU (if it's a matter of site
configuration) or at L-Soft (if it's a matter of modifying product
defaults or a file that ships with the product) will consider making
your inserted sentence part of the standard default message.

Phil Schwarz
co-owner, [log in to unmask]