On Fri, 31 Mar 1995 16:16:00 EST "s.merchant" <[log in to unmask]> said: >I try "get ballroom filelist (ctl" and get back "File ballroom filelist >is unknown to Listserv" The LISTSERV maintainer must set it up for you. >Then I do "get ballroom mailtpl" and get "File ballroom mailtpl is >unknown to Listserv" Ditto. Just putting a file on LISTSERV's disk doesn't automatically define is to the LISTSERV file system. For one thing, how would LISTSERV know what file access codes you want? >(The only file I _can_ get is DEFAULT MAILTPL (not $DEFAULT MAILTPL).) $DEFAULT MAILFORM is what the file was called until version 1.8. This file could only be updated by the LISTSERV maintainer. With version 1.8 the info is kept in a file with a different format and the name was changed to avoid confusions and allow people to prepare customized mail templates in advance (ie before loading the new code), for a smoother transition. >Yet, the listserv maintainer at mitvma provided us with a default >mailtpl, which we filled in and which _he installed for us_ and which >works fine (except that the "Subject:" line in line 1 does not become >the subject of the mail message as advertised, but rather becomes the >first line in the body--but I digress...). The "Subject:" line is for the WELCOME and FAREWELL files, where a subject is optional (LISTSERV provides a suitable default). For administrative messages, a subject is not optional. You specify the mandatory subject on the line that starts with >>>. >But I would now like to change the MAILTPL, and continue to have the >ability to change it occasionally in the future, without bothering the >listserv maintainer every time. Everytime this subject comes up on this >list, the consensus is that (a) yes, it can be done and (b) it doesn't >need the listserv's maintainer's help and (possibly c) it doesn't need a >FILELIST either, but none of the approaches seems to work. (a) and not (b) and (c). It's just like a WELCOME or FAREWELL file. On VM, someone has to define it somehow. This can be the LISTSERV maintainer defining it in the filelist of his choice, or creating a filelist for the list owner in which the list owner can later define the file. Eric