The asterisk takes care of the nameless, but the single name solution is
less than pretty since the punctuation appears as part of the name.  It's
not a major deal, but we'd prefer to specify a relaxed standard for naming.

Thanks for the help.

Roger Suppona
Sandia National Laboratories
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacob Haller [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 1:16 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Getting around the full name requirement
>
>
> >We're hitting a snag in our effort to migrate from majordomo
> to listserv.
> >Many of the majordomo subscribers don't have full names,
> just usernames and
> >addresses.  So, when we try and do something like QUIET ADD MYLIST
> >[log in to unmask], we get back this error message:
> >
> >[log in to unmask] is not yet in the signup file. Please specify
> the full name of
> >that person, as in "ADD MYLIST [log in to unmask] Joe H. Smith".
> >
> >We don't know foo's full name and would rather not be forced
> to dummy up
> >something.  We're in the process of rooting through the
> documentation but
> >can't find any obvious reference to a switch that will relax
> the full name
> >requirement.  I'm assuming this is a server, not a list
> issue since all
> >lists are required to submit adds with a full name.  Anyway
> around this
> >requirement?
> >
> >Roger Suppona
> >Sandia National Laboratories
> >[log in to unmask]
>
> Not as such (at least that I'm aware of), but if you don't
> have the full
> name you can use * or similar.  If you do an
>
>         ADD listname email@address *
>
> the email@address subscription will be associated with the
> name (Name not
> available) or something similar.
>
> Also if you just have a firstname you could do something like
>
>         ADD listname email@address Firstname .
>
> which I've done from time to time.
>
> Neither of these is completely automated so they probably
> aren't quite what
> you want, but they're there if you need them.
>
> -jwgh
>