I had a student in this situation once.  Turned out he had turned on
the spam filter in hotmail, and everything from any list was being
dumped into the trash.  Lots of mail programs have such utilities
these days.

                             -- Russ

On 24 Oct 2001, at 14:54, Marilyn Knapp Litt wrote:

> I have a user who can post, but who cannot receive.   I tried setting
> her to MAIL from DIGEST.  Didn't work.  Then I unsubbed her & resubbed
> her, changing the case, but nothing helps.  I recall that when I had
> this problem once before- I had my user send a command to LISTSERV,
> something like "Hello."  Can anyone help with this.  I can't find
> anything in the archives.
>
> Marilyn Knapp Litt
> http://www.illyria.com/myflag.html
> http://www.PresidentialMedal.com


                                __|~_
Russell A. Hunt            __|~_)_ __)_|~_    Professor of English
St. Thomas University      )_ __)_|_)__ __)  PHONE: (506) 452-0424
Fredericton, New Brunswick   |  )____) |       FAX: (506) 450-9615
E3B 5G3   CANADA          ___|____|____|____/    [log in to unmask]
                          \                /
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.StThomasU.ca/~hunt/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~