On Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:51:28 -0700, Barry Deutsch <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >list should be posted ([log in to unmask]). I wish to change >all occurences in the template file to [log in to unmask], which >is the alias I want people to see). &LISTADDR is the value that comes from the keyword List-Address= &LISTNAME seems to come from List-ID= (if defined in your header) or from the 'short' listname used internally by LISTSERV (at time of list creation.) (There appears to be a misprint in the Owners manual about this.) You cannot change the values for variables like &MYNAMES, &MYSELF, etc, because they are global variables specific to the host running LISTSERV. >I would rather use the variable approach >than hard coding the alias for the posting address and the command address. While this is a commendable goal, there seems to be only a partial way to implement this in the case of [log in to unmask] vs. &MYNAMES. You must set List-Address= Career-Doctor.com in your header. (Read the owners manual about this TWICE!, it's confusing, but then look at the first example. Don't add Career-Mgmt to this! Let LISTSERV do it.). Then, in <listname>.mailtpl, wherever your have &MYNAMES or &MYSELF , you will have to substitute LISTSERV@&KWD(list-address). Wherever there is &MYHOST you will have to substitute &KWD(list-address). Following is a discussion of a similar kind of alias setup from the list archives: "to make my list (THEOS-WORLD) appear to be accessible through my domain name (theosophy.com), although the lists actually are on home.ease.lsoft.com. My domain is on a WEB service provider. I have access to POP mailboxes and email forwarding there. Can I make this work if I do the following? : on the WEB service provider: [log in to unmask] redirected to [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] redirected to [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] redirected to [log in to unmask] in my default MAILTPL file I do the following global replacements on all messages that have the following fields: [note he used the 'brute-force' method rather than using variables] replace &mynames with [log in to unmask] replace &myself with [log in to unmask] replace &myhost with theosophy.com replace &listaddr with [log in to unmask] To which Eric Thomas said: "You also need this [in your list header] * List-Address= THEOSOPHY.COM It should work fine. Eric ======== Good luck! ________________________________________________________________________ Ben Parker ............ (Oak Park IL) .......... [log in to unmask]