Your "Notebook=" keyword appears to have wrapped to the next line. Each
keyword and its parameters must appear on a single line in the header.

Note that I corrected it in your example, but your mail software may
wrap the line again for you and thus hide my correction. Turn line
wrapping off in your mail program.

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Elizabeth Poole wrote:

> The following list create mail died with the following error message.
> Here's the mail:
>
> PUT TEST-LISTSERV.LIST PW=XXXXXXX
> *
> * Sample list for testing
> *
> * Notebook= Yes,/export/forums/listserv/home/lists/test-listserv,Monthly,Public
> * Notify= Yes
> * Reply-to= List,Respect
> * Review= Public
> * Send= Public
> * Subscription= Open
> * Validate= No
> *
> * Owner= [log in to unmask]
>
> Here's the error message:
>
> Invalid                RFC822               address                -
> Yes,/export/forums/listserv/home/lists/test-listserv,Monthly,Public.
> Recipient ignored.
> -> * Notify= Yes
>
> Header lines must be grouped at the  beginning of the file; they may not be
> interspersed with  recipients. Note that you  will get this message  if you
> attempt to update a list you had retrieved via the REVIEW command. You must
> not do that because the subscribers'  options would be lost in the process,
> and concealed subscribers  would be silently removed from  the list. Always
> use the GET command when you plan to update the list.
>
> PUT operation rejected, list has not been created.
>
> (end of cut and paste)
>
> The same list create mail worked as expected when I had the values TESTLIST
> and /testlist instead of TEST_LISTSERV and /test-listserv.
>
> This is something really obvious I'm missing, right?  Thanks!
>
> cheers, Elizabeth
>
> Elizabeth Poole              [log in to unmask]
> Collaborative Computing - Watson I/S
> T.J.Watson Research Center   tieline:  /862-3045,  external:  914-945-3045
> PO Box 218, Yorktown Heights NY 10598
>