peterc wrote:

> 1. The subscription message is not very readable - lots of blocks of
> text with no headings or formatting.

  True enough as I recall.

> But... I don't receive my messages.

  Puzzling, if you have set REPRO

> I know that my last message went out as I tried sending it again and
> got a reply from the server to say that the message had been sent out
> already (that's clever - it prevents the same message being sent out a
> second time).

  It appears you're smarter than many who manage to (without *actually*
looking at it) read that message as an invitation to alter their un-
answered message and subject the list to it once(, twice, ... ) more.

Mark Willis wrote:

>> 1. The subscription message is not very readable - lots of blocks of
>> text with no headings or formatting.

>   That can be fixed.  I'll take a look this weekend.

  That's news to me.  I have understood that message to be generic to
the listserver, like the badly misleading "dupe" warning just mentioned.
I was told before that as we used the server under great un-deserved
privilege, it was far too immodest to request the warning messages to
be fixed.

 Tim Hamel wrote:

> I second that motion! Is this something I could do (Mark?) to make a
> contribution to the list?  It would be MUCH easier to scan through it
> and find the needed commands.

  Should the messages *be* fixable, I can readily suggest a rephrase of
the "dupe" message which should stop all the re-sends.
--
  Cheers,
        Paul B.