Pete, I believe this works only on UNIX, not VMS or Windows platforms. Michael At 04:25 PM 3/21/02 -0500, Pete Weiss wrote: >At 13:45 03/21/2002 Thursday, Rich Greenberg wrote: > >On: Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:17:14PM -0600,Phillips, Bill Wrote: > > > >} I read somewhere in the Lsoft manuals that users can subscriber to a >list by > >} sending a message to an address associated with the list: > >} subscribe-listname@domain -- something like this. > > > >Thats correct (or it may be listname-subscribe, not sure) but you need a > >fairly recent version of Listserv to use it. 1.8d plus some fixes. > >listname-SUBSCRIBE-REQUEST@domain > >but the subscriber's FROM: field must have a firstname and lastname for >that process to work. > >The alias for this fast-path subscribe must also be present, which I >don't think occurs on all platforms. > >/Pete