On Fri, 4 Oct 1991 21:14:29 +0100 Eric Thomas said:
>On Fri, 4 Oct 1991 12:49:50 PDT RIEHL@USCVM said:
>
>>postmast@uscvm post master
>
>Somehow, this line gives me the  feeling you are maintaining this list as
>a free text file on LISTSERV 191,  using XEDIT. This may work, but is not
>supported. Many things may fail due to that.
 
no. i do not do that.  I subscribed to the list to monitor initial
activity.
 
>>1. i  changed the send  field from  'private' to 'editor,owner'  (yes, i
>>    know its redundant). for the next  half hour, anyone on the list was
>>    still able to post to the list. What is the delay caused by?
>
>No idea. If the cache data is older than the time stamp of the LIST file,
>it is rebuilt. SENDFILE plays with  time stamps under the assumption that
>everyone bothers  to set his GMT  offset properly, which is  almost never
>the case,  so if this is  the way you maintain  the list it could  be the
>reason.
>
it was the CACHE file.  i made another update, and erased the cache file.
it worked immediately
 
>>2. I would like to have postings to the list by subscribers forwarded to
>>    the list editor.  from the mailform, this looks  possible because of
>>    the presence of a message. How do i do this?
>
>This should happen the way it is set up now.
>
 
this was another delay from the cache file.  the test userid was getting
rejected.  he had only just subscribed moments before.
 
thanks to eric thomas & bob kaneshige
jr