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From: garfield@sunspot.noao.edu (Brian Armstrong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: listserv help
Message-ID: <3287@sunspot.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 90 23:17:08 GMT
Reply-To: garfield@sunspot.UUCP (Brian Armstrong)
Distribution: usa
Organization: National Solar Observatory, Sunspot NM
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In-Reply-To: <1318@polari.UUCP>
In article <1318@polari.UUCP> you write:
>Hi. I recently saw the message that talked about subcribing the CoCo Sig, bu
>Usenet. We'll I typed subscribe coco, and it gave me a error, like unknown
>user, so I tyoed subscribe coco Erich Sweaney and that still did not work?
>Does any know how? or can help me? Thank you..

The trick is to get it to the right address.  One is for the mailist,
where people read it, and the other is for the listserv program to
read.  Sending listserv commands to the mailist annoys people, and the
listserver responds with error messages to common messages.

For the listserver, try one of these addresses:
	listserv@pucc.bitnet
	listserv@pucc.princeton.edu
	...!att!arpa!pucc.bitnet!listserv

You can type multiple commands in one mail message to the listserver,
such as:
	subscribe coco <fulname>
	index os9

Hope this helps.

Brian Armstrong, National Solar Observatory, Sunspot, NM  88349