Tickets are commands that can be issued to Listserv using encrypted URLs.
Because of the convenience, they work great in forms embedded in HTML
emails. But because of the length, they are problematic for plain text. An
example is below:

http://listserver.digitalriver.com/scripts/wa.exe?TICKET=NzMwMzY1IHRvd2VyMDZ
ASUJNLk5FVCBJTlRFUlBMQVk1IGoypOUFQdVL&c=unsubscribe

Right now, this list is defaulted to CONCEAL. Otherwise you would receive
the following error:

Please type  your name after the  name of the list,  as in: "SUBSCRIBE
INTERPLAY-L Joe  H. Smith".  Alternatively, if  you want  to subscribe
anonymously, send the command: "SUBSCRIBE INTERPLAY-L Anonymous". Your
subscription will then be hidden automatically.

However, there are no places to input the requested information which means
that the end user would need to send an email to the listserver and that
defeats the reason for using the tickets.




-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Stober [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 11:32 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: List-wide subscription changes


Just curious, what's a ticket? If it's a URL that lets someone subscribe,
doesn't it take them to a Web page where they enter any missing information?
This sounds interesting, but I don't really understand the problem.

= Marc Louis Stober
= Systems Manager
= The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
= [log in to unmask]
= http://www.uscj.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: LISTSERV give-and-take forum
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Christopher Kosel
> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 10:57 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: List-wide subscription changes
>
>
> It looks like I started quite a discussion here yesterday. Let me
> elaborate
> on the bigger problem I am having:
>
> My goal was not to change subscription options without
> notification, my goal
> was to find a way to prevent a problem I'm running into when using tickets
> in mail-merge messages.
>
> My list had no default subscription options. I sent a newsletter with
> subscribe and unsubscribe tickets in the letter. However, after
> clicking on
> the URL, a lot of people received a message that they needed to provide a
> name, or type anonymous in place of their name, to properly subscribe. The
> problem here is that tickets leave no form to enter the info and
> most people
> got very frustrated very quickly. I needed a quick solution to make things
> more user friendly. I asked for a bit of help and the Listserv-developers
> group suggested making CONCEAL the default to side-step the problem.
>
> If anyone has better ideas, I'd very much welcome them.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Rauch [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 4:44 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: List-wide subscription changes
>
>
> > You probably want to do this QUIETly...
> >
> > QUIET SET listname NOCONCEAL FOR *@*
>
> On the other hand, you probably want to ask subscribers why
> they're SET to CONCEAL. If you UNconceal them without asking them
> first, or at the least, without giving them the opportunity to
> UNSUBSCRIBE first (so their presence on the list in not
> revealed), you'll likely create some serious animosity among
> subscribers. To reSET them to NOCONCEAL "QUIET"ly would be even
> more egregious than simply doing it without asking them first.
> (Maybe you've already done all this "checking". If so, my advice
> can be ignored.)
>
> Peter R