At 6:06 PM -0500 8/4/00, Dennis Budd wrote: <snip excellent discussion of how Dennis runs his lists> >In your case, your reasons (which I've snipped) for not wanting >anonymous subscriptions on your list, with a different target >community, make sense to me. > >I think your problem arises from people who are subbed to your list >without having their names "registered" in the database. I don't >understand this process well enough to be able to help you. The >distant memory of my own experience, which I didn't really understand >at the time, is that the first time you sub to a list on a particular >server your name is automatically registered, but not necessarily >thereafter. I remember having to issue a "REGISTER" command to get my >own firstname/lastname working properly. However I do not believe >that as a listowner you can issue a "REGISTER" command on behalf of a >subscriber. Well darn! That would have solved a lot of problems. :) >I think the suggestion of deleting and readding the >subscribers is the best shot. I have deleted and re-added one as a test case. Now to wait for her to post again. Thank you all. I appreciate the discussion, confusion, and possible solution. :) Mary Siegel