>Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 14:52:21 -0400 >From: John Lyon <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: Can use Of Registered Name Be Forced! > > > Hi, > > > > Our list requires members to use their "real name" as part of > > professional communications and to discourage flaming etc. We use: > > Subscription= owner,confirm > > Review= Owner > > Notify= yes > >By having Review= Owner, no one can see anyone's registered name except >you. Any names shown on list messages come from the From: field of the >message and has nothing to do with the subscribed name in LISTSERV. >LISTSERV only checks the address to determine if the person is a >subscriber, then allows the post. *****This seems true; posting is alllowed correctly; but if their own e-mail client shows a different "From" line, that is what is displayed. >As an example, you have [log in to unmask] Tom Trimble as a subscriber. >All you have to do is change your name to anything you want in your email >client and LISTSERV will display that name in your posts. So if you want >only real names in posts, you will have to require they set that properly >in their email client. Aside from the obvious problems with this, AOL >doesn't even send a name in the From: field. *****I agree, and this is obviously unenforceable and overbearing. >Since you have Subscription= owner, you receive all requests and you have >control over the name that goes in LISTSERV's database. If you don't like >what they sent, you write them and have them tell you their real name. But >this only keeps the database correct, not the posts. *****I subscribe new members with "may not post without approval" and send a message explaining our policies, again (it's in the "Welcome", of course, and correct the database and increase privileges with their reply. > > Is there a way to have the server "correct" the name to the > > registered name? > >No. *****So it seems; thanks! Sincerely, Tom Trimble