On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:11:16 -0500, Pat Case <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Our LISTSERV Postmaster tells us we can't use the Web interface for our lists because we don't keep public archives.  Why would the LISTSERV folks set it up that way? 

We didn't.  It is possible your Postmaster either has an incorrect understanding
of the www interface requirements and capabilities or has other objections to
activating it that are not being voiced.

>We have announcement only lists that send out time-sensitive information and links that we don't want hanging around to go sour, so we choose not to have archives, but we still want our users to be able to subscribe using the Web interface and it would be so much easier to manage our lists via the Web.  

Obviously if you don't have message archives, you can't browse them.  But
Management of lists and server Admin tasks (making new lists, etc) can still be
performed by List Owners and Postmasters.  We adminster many lists hosted at
L-Soft that do not have message archives.  We flatly could not do so many if we
didn't use the www interface. 

>Can I take a copy of the subscribe form and use it elsewhere? Is there a workaround so we could use the management Web pages or are we really out of luck? 

The neccessary html code has been published here previously.  See 

 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind9904&L=lstown-l&P=R4465