> At 08:53 05/28/1999 Friday -0400, you wrote: > |> Because firstname lastname are vacant fields, can a subscriber insert > |> anything in here...such as an ID numbers? > | > |Yes. I think the only requirement is one character, a space, and at least one > |more character. You can experiment with this yourself. > | > End Reply > > Remembering that LISTSERV "saves" this info and may generate it on > postings or when subscribing to other lists at the same hostname. E.g., > at one time another list-owner ADDed me to one of his lists with some > funky "firstname lastname, etc" which showed up in the strangest of > places on some mails that LISTSERV would generate -- as I recall, on > administrative messages. > > Using two asteriskes, separated by a spce for the name will allow the > subscription to complete. It's always seemed wrong to me that some off the wall name entered on an ADD command by a list owner can override the name that I gave in LISTSERV's registry. It seems to me that, if a list owner specifies a name in an ADD command, it should be used for that subscription, but should not override a name that's already registered.