On Fri, 16 Feb 1996 00:02:18 -0500 Automatic digest processor said: >The REPRO option doesn't get set for the users wolf and bozo. If >I subscribe a user after the list has been created, the user will get >the correct default-options that I have set for the list. Couldn't >this be considered a bug?? Since the list of subscribers goes at the >end of the put statement, the default options should be known before >processing the subscribers and be set accordingly for the users. Has >anyone else discovered this? Yes... it's a "feature", not a bug. (The definition of "feature", of course, is "documented bug". :-) And, actually, there's a bit of rationale behind it... since an owner can GET a list with all the subscribers (as well as start up a list with subscribers in place), if you change the default-options, you *don't* want to change people who've already perhaps SET their options to something entirely different. That's a good way to really get your subscribers whining... I ran into the problem when I put LISTSERV list requests in an online web-based form with a perl processor script, then shipped the whole thing over to our VM machine where LISTSERV runs. From that point, when I get the thing in mail from the perl script, I have an XEDIT macro that handles the rest of the processing, including picking up the default-options and doing a QUIET SET for them (via interactive command to LISTSERV) for all the initial subscribers to the list. It may not be pretty or elegant, but it works for me. -Holly