Hello Kynn,
Thanks for your tips...I have tried all the the possibilities including
"list-name", but so far have no luck. I have no experience in creating
lists...I will appericiate if you could tell me little bit about creating
lists.
On Mon, 26 May 1997, Kynn Bartlett wrote:
> Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 14:54:24 -0700
> From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
> To: Syed Ali <sali@pluto.valpo.edu>
> Cc: majordomo-users@GreatCircle.COM
> Subject: Re: configuration Problem
>
> At 03:51 PM 5/23/97 -0500, Syed Ali wrote:
> >Everything seem to be installed successfully...but I
> >am having hard time configuring the l!sts and aliases. when I try to
> >subscr!be to a list name "list-name.!nfo" I get the following errors:
> >--------------------------------xxxx--------------------------------- >>>>
> >subscr!be list-name.info
> >**** subscr!be: unknown list 'list-name.!nfo'.
> >--------------------------------xxxx-------------------------------------
>
> Why would you want to subscr!be to a list named "list-name.!nfo"?
>
> The <something>.!nfo construction is reserved in majordomo for
> "!nfo files" about your list. The name of the list itself is
> "list-name", and "list-name.!nfo" is simply a file that stores
> a description of your list.
>
> You want to subscr!be to "list-name". Try that instead -- or if
> you really need a list with "!nfo" in the name, don't end it in
> ".!nfo" -- call it "list-name-info" for example. (Again -- the
> period-!nfo file name has a special meaning to majordomo.)
>
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