Hi Mark: Thanks for the clarification. The people who want off of a list and send comands to the list rather than the server are confused, careless or frustrated and, in any case, are very likely, while in that state, to be using a comand they recall using with a different "brand" of list server and not the one required by LISTSERV. How can the local list administrator add the more "popular" of these I want off commands to the LISTSERV filter. Thanks, John On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Mark R. Williamson wrote: > > >[...] What keyword am I after to set LISTSERV to direct socalled > >"administrative" messages to the list owner (is that still an ok term :) > >so that such messages are broadcast to the subscribers. [...] > > LISTSERV does this by default for valid LISTSERV commands in the message > body. I think there may be a setting to turn it off, but I'm not sure that > there is. > > >An example of the kind of message I am talking about is appended. > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:52:01 +0100 > >From: "Robert C. Leibsle" <[log in to unmask]> > >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] > >To: Multiple recipients of list LNET-LLC <[log in to unmask]> > >Subject: unsubscribe > > > >unsubsribe > > This isn't a valid command, ergo no filtering. (The subject does happen to > contain a valid LISTSERV command, but LISTSERV ignores subjects.) > > Mark R. Williamson > > > John DeBruyn, Denver, Colorado, The Mile High City, USA ([log in to unmask])