On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Jim Gerland wrote: >On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Barak Moshe wrote: >> 2. How does the listserv know the name of the subscriber? i.e., which >> header field is used? >It is stored in the 3rd and 4th tokens of the command line. But if I subscribe to a list *without* typing in my name (e.g sub some_list) I find my name in the list nevertheless (using review or scan). This might mean that listserv does parse the from: field and uses it... If so, why can't it be used for automatic subscription ? Thanks, Moshe