At 09:47 AM 8/8/1997 -0400, you wrote:
>
>http://www.idot.aol.com/mld/production/mld-commands.html#L-Soft-LISTSERV

Ah HA!!   They named the box this is running on.  It should NOT be IDOT but
should be IDIOT, to refer to both the people running it and the users.

>That page at AOL explains how to sign on to a LISTSERV(R) list, using
LSTSRV-L
>_as an example_. Every single LISTSERV(R) list in AOL's list directory
>(http://ifrit.web.aol.com/mld/production/index.html) points to the above
page.
>How many subscribers does AOL have? If just a small percentage of the AOL
>subscribers follow those directions without realizing that it is an
_example_,
>that's still a lot of people.

If you skim on thru their lengthy examples, they do the same thing to the
people running Majordomo and other list software.....and three of the five
point to the list for listowners.  The other two point to various subject
lists, but definitely not what most aolers (gee, i always want to put an
'h' between the a and the o) want to receive.

dan

Dan Lester
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