Default-Options=CONCEAL On 10 Jul 2006 at 13:17, Wayne T Smith wrote: > I'd like to offer e-mail to "listname-subscribe-request@listserv-domain" > as a subscription method for some of my lists, but some potential > subscribers have a terminally serious problem with it. Perhaps I'm > missing something? > > > If the potential subscriber has not configured their e-mail with their > "FirstName LastName", Listserv (v14.5) sends the confirmation e-mail, > but when the potential subscriber clicks the URL s/he gets a web page > that says (for a "UMToday" mailing list): > > OK 485C1839 > > Confirming: > > > QUIET SUBSCRIBE UMTODAY > > Please type your name after the name of the list, as in: "SUBSCRIBE > UMTODAY > > Joe H. Smith". Alternatively, if you want to subscribe anonymously, > send the > > command: "SUBSCRIBE UMTODAY Anonymous". Your subscription will then be > > hidden automatically. > > > Although the potential subscriber may read "Confirming", the > subscription request was *NOT CONFIRMED* and in fact failed. The text, > which may be appropriate to someone who used e-mail to > Listserv@domain-name to subscribe, is completely unintelligible to the > listname-subscribe-request person. > > Is there a way to make this work, such as a configuration item to allow > no name or default to anonymous for these lists? > > Thanks and cheers, wayne > -- Francoise Becker There is only one LISTSERV(R) -- the product that launched the email list communication industry in 1986. To discover the story behind LISTSERV, visit: http://www.lsoft.com/corporate/20anniversary.asp