Mailing list -Reply

[Jack Reeves]

>>> <Daleboy@aol.com> 12/27/95 09:15am >>>
Greetings all!
>           I have in the past made a couple of attempts to get my
>name corrected on the "Pianotech Review List". Column "A" is
>the address, column
>"B" is the recipients actual name, however, some others as well
>as myself have the address printed in both columns. What is
>the procedure for updating or changing this listing so that my
>name actually gets printed instead of an address in both
>columns? Thanks!
  >         HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!
>Dale Whitehead
>Franklin, TN.
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Dale and everyone else in the same condition,

First of all, don't do anything until you have checked your
subscription name, the same as Dale has done.  Most of you are
correctly subscribed.    If you have not checked yet, send email
to listserv@byu.edu and in the body of the letter say <review
pianotech> without the <>'s.

What probably happened was you used your email address
instead of your name in the subscription process.  If someone
tries to subscribe and does not put anything in the name spot,
listserv will reject the request and send an error message back to
the sender and a copy to me.  But a lot of people put their email
name instead of <firstname lastname> and as long as anything
has been entered there, listserv will accept it as <firstname
lastname>.  When the list was much smaller I took the time to
write each person and have them correct their subscription
listing, but I can't now with the size of the list.

The easiest way for me to have you correct it is to have you
unsubscribe, and then subscribe again.

To unsubscribe send email to listserv@byu.edu  leave the
subject blank and in the body of the message say
                          unsubscribe pianotech
Do not include your name with the unsubscribe command or
listserv will reject the request

To resubscribe send email to listserv@byu.edu     leave the
subject blank and in the body of the message say
                     subscribe pianotech firstname lastname

Obviously, you need to send the unsubscribe message first.

If this procedure causes anyone problems, write me at
jack_reeves@byu.edu and I'll help.

Now about passwords.  The only time you will need a password
is when you need to change your email address.  If you change
email addresses, you can unsubscribe from the old address
before the change and subscribe at the new address after the
change and not need your password.  Remember that listserv
automatically gets your email address from the header.  Now if
your address has already changed, and you send an
unsubscribe command, listserv will tell you that your are not a
subscriber, because it won't recognize your new address, so you
will need to use your password.  Here is the command.  Send
email to listserv@byu.edu and leave the subject blank (always
leave the subject blank when communicating with listserv-and no
I don't know how the AOL people do that).  In the body of the
message say
         set pianotech old-address password new-address
This is the only time that I have found that a subscriber needs to
know his/her password.  So if you always remember to
unsubscribe before you change your email address (such as if
you change internet provider) then you won't need to know your
password.

Jack
jack_reeves@byu.edu