On Sat, 10 Apr 1999 20:54:29 -0500, "M. LEBLANC" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >No confirmation necessary to change the name. > Well the command you issued was SUBSCRIBE and even on a list which is set validate= Yes,Confirm the SUB command has to be treated specially or nobody would ever be able to subscribe themselves to such a list. There is a very nice table in Appendix B of the new 1.8d manuals that summarizes the effects of different Validate= settings on various commands but SUB snd UNSUB remain low privileged operations even with Validate= All,Confirm,Nopw. If your exact address is already subscribed to the list then the only thing the SUB command (or the ADD command by the List Owner) will/can do is to modify the User Name. So this is what most likely what happened.