John Lyon Thank you John, for helping me to restore my bottom banner. Your directions were very clear and everything worked as you said it would. I have now also added a top banner. I also want to thank you for letting me know about the web interface. I was not previously aware that this existed. When my list was created in 1995, this option was not available. It certainly makes a Listowner's job much simpler to manage a list. <<Ron Moore>> Listowner and Moderator MOCK-GEN-L [log in to unmask] ******************************** At 11:32 PM 5/7/2000 -0400, you wrote: > > I am wondering if someone can give me some suggestions on restoring my > > bottom banner for my list, MOCK-GEN-L? I have searched the LSTOWN-L > > archives and haven't been able to find anything that can help me. > > > > My list, MOCK-GEN-L has been running now for almost 5 years and has had few > > if any real problems. I recently changed the URL of my home page and > > attempted to edit this change into the bottom banner of my list. I > > unfortunately ended up with a corrupted MAILTPL file. I then ended up with > > no bottom banner at all. I had two messages I wished to send with each > > message which included a couple of lines pointing to our home page and > > another pertaining to our archives. Of course the instructions on how to > > unsubscribe from the list were also lost. > > > > I then sent for and obtained the file: > > > > DEFAULT MAILTPL > > > > By cutting and pasting, I edited out the corrupt portion of the prior file > > and thought I had a good one that seemed to have all the necessary things > > to restore my bottom banner, but it still does not work and I still do not > > have my bottom banner back. I even confirmed that the new MAILTPL file had > > been successfully stored. > >First of all you are going at this all wrong and have a mess. You have >the entire DEFAULT.MAILTPL (that you pieced together) file renamed to >MOCK-GEN-L.MAILTPL and are then trying to edit/add to it. All you need to >do is create (PUT) a MOCK-GEN-L.MAILTPL with just the templates you want >to change or ADD. In this case just the >>> BOTTOM_BANNER (I assume) > >If I were you, I would get rid of the Validate= yes,confirm,NOPW >and change it to: Validate= yes,confirm > >Do a blank PUT of the MOCK-GEN-L.MAILTPL file to delete it. This will use >the default.mailtpl file off the server for all your templates and will >assure you they all work. Then use the web interface to create/edit JUST >the templates you need to. This will assure you of a non-corrupt template >and will be much easier to do and everything will work. Then if you no >longer wish to use the the web interface, just add the NOPW back. > >Then GET your listname.mailtpl file and you will see what I mean. > >-- >John Lyon >L-Soft international, Inc. >http://www.lsoft.com