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Re: Create mail list -- like ibm-nets

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From: David Boyes
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 1991 00:35
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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 it as one of your standard user accounts and remove
any IPL, LINK or MDISK statements your standard users get. A
LISTSERV mailbox ID only needs a USER card and a SPOOL 00C 2540
READER A card in the directory entry to work; we just create a
standard user and set it's password to something impossible to
type from the keyboard.



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Message-ID: <1991Feb13.003540.24633@rice.edu>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!rice!brazos.rice.edu!dboyes
References: <9102121431.AA01596@lilac.berkeley.edu>

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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: <1991Feb13.003540.24633@rice.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 91 00:35:40 GMT
References: <9102121431.AA01596@lilac.berkeley.edu>
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