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Subject: Re: tricky aliases
From: Mats Dufberg <Mats . Dufberg @ abc . se>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 08:32:53 +0100 (MET)
To: Kathleen Crane <kcrane @ intermerce . com>
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <3.0.5.32.19980826091311.007b5bc0@intermerce.com>

On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Kathleen Crane wrote:

> I'm attempting to set up a mailing list called '4internet'. I can
> subscribe, unsubscribe, etc. but there is one problem: I'm running Open BSD
> and I cannot create a user called 4internet (apparently the first character
> in the name cannot be a number.)

You don't have to create users for the list. There is no meaning to. The
only user that you have to create is the majordomo user. For the lists you
only create entries in /etc/aliases.



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Mats Dufberg                                  Mats.Dufberg@abc.se





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