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