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On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Jane Gibson wrote: > Please could you send me instructions for adding a colleague to the mailing > list. As far as I understand the Mailbase system, I am the only person who can add or remove third parties, as Mailbase requires the e-mail address of anyone else to be exactly the same as the address given in the instruction. I think this is a deliberate feature, to avoid the possibility of hundreds of names being added by a mischievous prankster, as indeed happened on one occasion to the adam-news list in Tony Gill's days as listowner of that*. The list was then flooded with ever more offensive messages from those who had been unwittingly subscribed, all students at a US university. Names and e-mail addresses of third parties can be submitted to myself as listowner, and I will endeavour to subscribe them as soon as possible. * Tony was also founder and first listowner of the MCG list, for which I think we should honour him with lifetime honorary membership. --------------------------------------------------------------- Ian O. Morrison, Scottish Museums Documentation Officer http://www2.scran.ac.uk/staff/ianm/ "Why can't I be different and original... like everybody else?" V. Stanshall %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%