On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Pat Case wrote:

> I am a brand new list owner and request assistance in figuring out why
> some folk subscribing to our list receive the e-mail asking them to
> confirm their intent to subscribe to the list by responding OK and
> others do not.
>
> Our header is set to Subscription=Open.  It has never been set to
> Subscription=Open, Confirm       Without the "Confirm" I expected that
> potential subscribers would not receive the e-mail asking them to
> confirm their intent to subscribe to the list.
>
      Pat
        A related question recently arose on my list (which has
      SUBSCRIPTION= OPEN,CONFIRM) that might have a bearing on
      your problem.  While all new subscribers were asked to confirm
      their subscriptions it turned out some people were being asked
      to confirm a request to set NOMAIL while others were not.  If I
      remember correctly it turned out that those who were using
      web-based mailers were the ones being asked to confirm while
      those not using web-based mailers were not.   You might check
      to see if your subscribers who are being asked to confirm are
      using various Microsoft or Netscape mailers.

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