Use LISTNAME-subscribe-request@LISTHOST as the recipient address in the mailto: link. This should eliminate the need to include the 'SUBscribe' command in the body of the message.

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Paul Russell
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From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nathan Brindle [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 11:51
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Making Subscription to a List Painless

There’s more to it than that.  For one thing, if you are not going to require that the user enter their Firstname Lastname information, you will have to make the LISTSERV command look like

SUB listname ANONYMOUS

Otherwise LISTSERV will reject the subscription attempt and tell you that no name field was specified.

As a workaround, I think you can omit the name field if the list is set to

Default-Options= CONCEAL

but I’ve slept a few times since I last looked at that approach.

Nathan

From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kern, Thomas (CONTR)
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 10:05 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Making Subscription to a List Painless

You can even add a “subject” and a “body” to the mailto: and then the user simply clicks on SEND. Please note that this is a copied sample not a political statement.

<a href=”mailto:[log in to unmask]&body=Enjoy%20your%20stay%0ARegards%20″>

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Thomas Kern
ActioNet, Inc.
On contract to:
U.S. Department of Energy
301-903-2211 (Office)
301-905-6427 (Mobile)

From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Pete Weiss
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 9:59 AM
To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [LSTSRV-L] Making Subscription to a List Painless

At the bottom of this message is an UNSUBSCRIBE MAILTO URI.  I bet you could easily modify it for your purposes.

Also, don't forget to tell potential subscribers to make sure their subscription notification and/or confirmation does not end up in SPAM.

<IMHO>

Using a MAILTO function is more trustworthy compared to manual entering in a (bogus) email address.

Pete
On 10/16/2013 09:45, Donna Lewis wrote:



I'd like to put a subscribe button for our list on our webpage. The person signing up would only have to enter their email address to sign up, then receive a confirmation email, you know the drill.

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