I had just last month rewritten the 1.7f DEFAULT$ MAILFORM to correct the instructions sent out to people whose subscription has expired after failing to confirm . Then we upgraded to 1.8a, and the The 1.8a upgrade overwrote our correction! We just received notice that over 300 people have been sent the incorrect instructions. Eric, Could you please edit the DEFAULT$ MAILFORM for future versions so this does not happen again! 1. There is no instruction as to which address to send the resubscribe. (Ideally it would give bith BitNet and Internet addresses, or at least an instruction to add ".bitnet" to the node name if the person is sending from an Internet address.) 2. The SUB command as shown is incorrect, as it leaves out the person's name, and thus will; be rejected by listserv. We are currently getting scores of Questions and SUB requests via QUAKER-L-REQUEST Yes I know that people should know to send commands to listserv (but they don't know) and should have CONFIRMed their subscription (but they don't understand the significance of the confirm request). All this notwithstanding, a few more words of clarification in the message sent out would have saved us a HUGE amount of time and effort. Thanks, Bruce Dienes QUAKER-L, QUAKER-P, SLFHLP-L, COMPSY-L Forwarded message: > Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 06:00:46 -0500 > From: BITNET list server at UIUCVMD <[log in to unmask]> (1.8a) > Subject: Expiration of your subscription to the QUAKER-L list > To: subscriber@node > Reply-to: [log in to unmask] > > Mon, 13 Jun 1994 06:00:39 > > Your subscription to the QUAKER-L list has expired and you have failed to > confirm it in the 30 days delay that you had been granted. You have therefore > been automatically removed from the list. You can re-subscribe to it, if you so > desire, by means of the following command: > > SUBscribe QUAKER-L > Should read something like: You can resubscribe to it, if you so desire, by sending an e-mail message to listserv@uiucvmd (from a BitNet node) or to [log in to unmask] (from an Internet node) saying: SUBscribe QUAKER-L YourFirstName YourLastName -- Bruce P. A. Dienes Beware the iniquitous Disk Trolls! Internet: [log in to unmask] or: [log in to unmask] or: [log in to unmask] or: [log in to unmask] BitNet: dienes@uiucvmd Phone: Home: 217-328-7720 (best) or Office: 217-333-3704 (msg)