If I could add another peculiarity to Listserv 1.8d HPO (We run
it on Solaris).

Before we applied the patch and upgraded to HPO, the Daily Error
Monitoring Report would continue to contain e-mail addresses that had been
removed.  These eventually disappeared as expected and the error count
reflected that as well as the last error date.

After the patch was applied and after we upgraded to HPO, I have had
several reports and confirmed myself that removed bad addresses
still remain on the Error Report BUT, 1. the error number increases
which never happen before, 2. the last error date on the report
also increments reflecting a date after the subscriber had been
removed.  It is number 2 above that causes our list owners the
most confusion.

--Trish

On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Chris McFerren wrote:

> I have been receiving conflicting results between web-based and
> e-mail-based inquiries of several lists I maintain.  We are running 1.8d
> (HPO) for Unix with Sendmail on the same machine.
>
> I have a list to which I bulk added 30 subscribers via the web.  I wanted
> to test a feature so I deleted all subscribers, added only myself and
> verified that I was the only subscriber all via the web.  I sent out a
> test message only to receive replies from many persons all of which should
> have been unsubscribed.  I did not receive the message.
>
> I have a list to which all subscribers are concealed.  I modified my
> subscription to unconcealed through the web interface.  I performed some
> testing then I reverted my subscription back to concealed.  The web
> interface confirms this, but when I review the list via e-mail I am still
> concealed.
>
> Shortly before these occurrences we applied the security patch and
> upgraded to HPO.  Since then I have observed some peculiar behaviors.  In
> addition to the above I have not been able to see concealed subscribers in
> response to commands submitted via e-mail even though I am a ListServ
> administrator.  I have to submit review commands via the web interface to
> see concealed subscribers.  This was explained to me as the web interface
> uses scan when retrieving subscriber info and the e-mail-based command is
> review.  Regardless, the results I am experiencing are not consistent with
> what I recall and I have not changed the way I interact with Listserv.
>
> Today I submitted a review command via the web interface.  I received
> into my e-mail account a request to confirm my request.  Even though my
> request was to review the list the confirmation message included wording
> to the effect that I would later receive confirmation of my subscription
> request.  I've been subscribed to this list since it was created!  I ok'd
> it and later received the correct results.
>
> What's going on here?  Is there web-lag?  Are commands submitted via the
> web not executed as quickly as or different than commands submitted via
> e-mail?
>