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From: dboyes@BRAZOS.RICE.EDU (David Boyes)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm
Subject: Re: Create mail list -- like ibm-nets
Message-ID: <9102130118.AA20391@lilac.berkeley.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 91 00:37:57 GMT
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In article <9102121431.AA01596@lilac.berkeley.edu> BITNIC IBM-NETS List
        <IBM-NETS%BITNIC.BITNET@lilac.berkeley.edu> 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 a standard user account and remove all the IPL, LINK
and MDISK statements in the directory entry. A LISTSERV mailbox
id just has to be a valid user and have a reader to spool things
into.

We just create a regular user and change the password to
something that can't be typed from the keyboard and leave it that
way. LISTSERV does all the work.


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