My friend is trying to subscribe to this list. Here is the original
request as well as the response. Has something changed since I signed
up.
Peter: Have your friend send a PLAIN TEXT message, not an HTML message.
It is generally considered bad manners to send HTML to a list in
general, and I
to the bottom.
Mark Post
-Original Message-
From: Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Invalid request received from you
My friend is trying to subscribe to this list. Here is the original request
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cc:
Subject:Invalid request received from you
Your message is being returned to you unprocessed because no command was found
in the message body. LISTSERV expects commands in the body of the message,
rather than in the message subject, because some users have no control over
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good. Send the command to the robot. That is correct.
subscribe linux-390 Bob Tegethoff - at Pepco
Good. The syntax is correct too.
Question:
Was the note sent as plain text?
If it was, for example, HTML, that will throw LISTSERV off.
