Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!rice!brazos.rice.edu!dboyes From: dboyes@brazos.rice.edu (David Boyes) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm Subject: Re: Create mail list -- like ibm-nets Message-ID: <1991Feb13.003540.24633@rice.edu> Date: 13 Feb 91 00:35:40 GMT References: <9102121431.AA01596@lilac.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 21 In article <9102121431.AA01596@lilac.berkeley.edu> BITNIC IBM-NETS List writes: >We are a fairly new (local only) LISTSERV site. We would like to >create a local mailing list. I have instructions to make the list >know to LISTSERV. I LACK instructions to set up the CMS userid >for the actual mailbox. Does anyone have any help in this direction? >HELEN P. NULTY 315-379-5979 Just create it as one of your standard user accounts and remove any IPL, LINK or MDISK statements your standard users get. A LISTSERV mailbox ID only needs a USER card and a SPOOL 00C 2540 READER A card in the directory entry to work; we just create a standard user and set it's password to something impossible to type from the keyboard. -- David Boyes |The three most dangerous things in the world: dboyes@rice.edu | 1) a programmer with a soldering iron, | 2) a hardware type with a program patch, and "Delays, delays!" | 3) a user with an idea.