On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Sherry Beauchamp wrote: >We have about 200+ mailing lists on our server. I want to change the >verbiage of a couple of the default messages, but I don't want to put >a new mail template for each list. How do I do this? I tried >GETting the DEFAULT MAILTPL, editing it, and PUTting it, but received >the following message: > >>It is not possible to update file "DEFAULT MAILTPL", because it is >>maintained internally by LISTSERV. > >What am I doing wrong? > >Sherry Beauchamp > I think what you're doing wrong is assuming you can do what you want to do with one MAILTPL. Unless a site has defined a language-dependent template, which will then also be searched if "Language=" is set to the name of the language, you have "DEFAULT MAILTPL", which is built in to Listserv and cannot be changed, and "<listname> MAILTPL", which is totally defined by the list owner. For web templates, the Listserv maintainer can define a site-wide file as well, but for mail templates the only customization is on a list-by-list basis. Dennis