Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!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: <9102130118.AA20386@lilac.berkeley.edu> Date: 13 Feb 91 00:35:40 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: BITNIC IBM-NETS List Organization: The Internet Lines: 22 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.