> At 08:53 05/28/1999 Friday -0400, you wrote:
> |> Because firstname lastname are vacant fields, can a subscriber insert
> |> anything in here...such as an ID numbers?
> |
> |Yes. I think the only requirement is one character, a space, and at least one
> |more character. You can experiment with this yourself.
> |
> End Reply
>
> Remembering that LISTSERV "saves" this info and may generate it on
> postings or when subscribing to other lists at the same hostname.  E.g.,
> at one time another list-owner ADDed me to one of his lists with some
> funky "firstname lastname, etc" which showed up in the strangest of
> places on some mails that LISTSERV would generate -- as I recall, on
> administrative messages.
>
> Using two  asteriskes, separated by a spce for the name will allow the
> subscription to complete.

It's always seemed wrong to me that some off the wall name entered on an ADD
command by a list owner can override the name that I gave in LISTSERV's
registry.  It seems to me that, if a list owner specifies a name in an ADD
command, it should be used for that subscription, but should not override
a name that's already registered.