Marco,
What you're going to need to do .. after you've listed yourself as a postmaster, you need to restart the application which then reads your changes into memory.  Try issuing the "go" command ... or ./go ... whatever the case may be.  On NT, I think you'll just say "go"!
Anyway .... as the previous people said, never manually edit your lists.
Use the get/put commands as well as your web interface ... if installed.  If that is available to you, you should be able to view it or find its link by issuing the "help" command.  Towards the bottom of the reply email, you should find the link listed there.
oh, also ... when you set the postmaster up, there should be a line with your password or 'PW= ' entry ... make sure you've set up your password there.  There usually are not too many places you will need it (definitely when you issue the PUT command" but you will also need it for the web interface.  Good luck.

Sincerely,
Chris Barbot

... remember, if you have or hear of any reporting mechanisms or tools, please get back in touch.  I dying for a little more detail on my server here!  :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: A. Harry Williams [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 8:17 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Win NT4 & Listserv Lite 1.8d request for urgent assistance


On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 10:13:45 +1000 Marco Ostini said:
>Hi there,
>
>> > So, being a bit of a hacker (NOT Cracker) I had a look in the .LIST file
>> > for the list in question and edited the owner portion of it so that it was
>> > my email address instead of my predecessor.
>>
>> You didn't edit it in-place, rather than with a GET/PUT pair or the Web
>> interface? Did you? Please say you didn't...
>
>I used a text editor. That's what text editors are for, no?

No, text editors are for editing text files, hence their name.
You wouldn't use one to edit a .DLL or other similar file just
because you can read some of the file.  The .LIST files are
are not text files even though you can read parts of them.
This has been true of the Windows versions since day 1.


>
>> > Please help me out of this. I need to:
>> >
>> >         1) take control of all the lists
>>
>> Getting yourself listed as the Postmaster should do it..
>
>It has NOT, hence the source of my frustration and problems. I used

Are you sure you're listed as the postmaster?  Try sending a RELEASE
command and look at the output.  If you aren't listed, you aren't
the postmaster.


>site.exe to edit the config file and added my email address as
>postmaster. This has had no effect as it still tells me that I'm not the
>owner of a list, and hence I can't add or remove people...

Sounds like you're not the postmaster.  I add and delete people more
than I would like, simply as postmaster.


/ahw