b-greek-request is NOT b-greek

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Dec 17 10:53:32 EST 2002


At 10:40 AM -0500 12/17/02, Jonathan Robie wrote:
>Some people seem to be sending mails to
>b-greek-request at franklin.oit.unc.edu when they want to post to
>b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu. These two different email lists do quite
>different things.
>
>If you post to b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu, your mail is treated as a post
>for this list. If you post to b-greek-request at franklin.oit.unc.edu, your
>mail is treated as a request to subscribe to this list, unsubscribe, or do
>a variety of obscure things that list administrators do. If you send mail
>to b-greek-request, it tries to figure out what kind of subscription
>request you are trying to make, and sends an error message if it can't
>figure it out. For instance, it might say that you are already subscribed
>to the list if it can't figure out what you're really trying to do.
>

Jonathan, it may be the case that this is the reason some members are
getting these messages, but I--and I suspect several other posters--have
been getting them with every single post to the list using "Biblical Greek
<b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu>" Here's the most recent that I just got (and
I fully expect this present message to reap the same harvest!):
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>From: "ListManager" <ListManager-admin at franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>Reply-To: "ListManager" <ListManager-admin at franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>To: cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
>Subject: Re: your subscribe request
>Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:23:37 -0500
>
>Re: your subscribe request
>> subscribe
>
>Sorry, but the email address 'cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu' is already a
>member of 'b-greek'.
>
>Because you are already subscribed, ListManager did not subscribe you again.
>
>To unsubscribe, send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu OR cwconrad at ioa.com
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