On Tue, 13 Dec 1994 13:13:42 -0500 david boyes said:
>> We have a couple of nodes in our NJE network within ESA which are not
>> registered in BITEARN NODES file. When I try to subscribe to one of our
>> local lists from a node not in BITEARN NODES, the subscription is denied.
>> What can I do????? See example:
>
>You have two choices:
>
>  1) register the nodes
This is not possible as some of our nodes must not have EARN/BITNET access.
>  2) send the request via mail with a fully qualified domain name
>     in the headers. Since LISTSERV has no way of associating the
>     FQDN with a NJE node name (it's not in BITEARN NODES, so it
>     doesn't exist), it assumes that the address is ok.
Also this solution is not possible as some of the nodes only have PROFS and
(tried that) PROFS/OV mails don't work with LISTSERV.
>
We have a couple of list which we use for coordination purposes. But the
members of those Lists are not all on registered EARN/BITNET nodes.
 
The other problem: I maintain a couple of Filelists. The files registered
in those Filelists must be retrievable also by non-BITNET nodes. This also
doesn't work. It did work during the times we had 'LISTEARN' and now we have
many unsatisfied customers and coordination work is much more difficult (via
distribution lists which have to be maintained at each non-BITNET node).
We would be very happy to get around this problems.
 
best regards                        Hermann Schneider
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