For each new member subscription request you should receive two messages that look something like the illustrations below. The first of these illustrations is the authorization request to add the new member's e-mail address to the specified list. The second illustration is the authorization request for the new member's profile.
Before processing the new member request, you should examine the profile and see if it satisfies the minimum standards for admitting a new member to the list. In general those standards include:
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How to process the next message is covered in the Subsubscription Request section.
How to process the next message is covered in the New Member Profile section.
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Click the reply button and include the original message in the
reply
but do not mark the original text with '>'
If your mailer automatically marks the original text with '>' you may forward the message instead. If you must use "forward", then manually enter the reply address majordomo@bzs.org.
The authorization message to majordomo@bzs.org should look something like the image below. The contents of the Subject: line are not important.
Edit the message to majordomo to include only the required authorization information.
Insert the correct password into the message and finish the authorization statement by including the command word "end" to stop majordomo from processing further lines in the message. If the end command is missing, majordomo will try to interpret the remaining lines as commands (which, of course, it will not understand), the result will be a long message back to you explaining in great detail, all the majordomo commands and where to get more help about majordomo.
In the event that the authorization line is too long, some e-mail programs will automatically wrap the line. This action will confuse majordomo since it expects to find the entire authorization command on one line. Simply insert a "space" and the "\" (backslash) character to notify majordomo of line continuation.
An additional problem may occur if the new member e-mail address includes a "screen name" or other information. Delete this information before sending the authorization message to majordomo.
You may also notice that some mailers send the e-mail address enclosed in left and right brackets, this makes no difference to majordomo as long as both brackets are either there or missing entirely.
The authorization is complete, send it now.
Great care must be taken while processing the New Member Profile to avoid line wrapping in the included message headers. Almost all mailers perform some type of automatic line wrapping. The mail headers which appear in the body of the New Member Profile text window are re-used when the message is returned to majordomo with the authorization PASSWORD. If the headers are modified or wrapped by the mailer, majordomo will fail to correctly process the returned profile.
A second problem that commonly occurs in most profile submissions is the lack of line wrapping in the descriptive part of the profile. Many prospective new members simply type their profile into the submission form without ever formatting the text information. The resulting profile message will then look something like the illustration below instead of the first profile illustration at the beginning of this section.
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If the profile text is already properly formatted, then skip the next part of the instructions on re-formatting the profile text and proceed to authorization.
Click the reply button and include the original message in the
reply but do not mark the original text with '>'
If your mailer automatically marks the original text with '>' you must forward the message instead. If you must use "forward", then manually enter the reply address insulin-pumpers-profile@bzs.org. You must also manually edit the profile text by inserting return characters where appropriate. Skip to the instructions on authorization.
Turn ON Reformat line breaks in original. This will automatically wrap the profile text and correctly format it for later display on the web site.
The authorization message to insulin-pumpers-profile@bzs.org should look something like the image below. The contents of the Subject: line are not important.
Clean up the text of the profile by removing duplicate member names, move or delete extra e-mail addresses, correct capitalization (or lack of it), and generally make the profile easy to read. In most cases, these steps are unnecessary since the vast majority of profiles will be submitted correctly except perhaps for line wraps. The objective here is to make the profile easy to read. Lastly, highlight and "copy" the updated profile information to your desktop clipboard. "CANCEL the message and proceed with the profile authorization.
Click the reply button and turn OFF Reformat line breaks in original as shown in the first options illustration above. The un-modified profile reply message should look something like the illustration below.
Complete the authorization steps by:
Once in a great while, a prospective new member will actually submit a subscription request using his/her mailer rather than the web site form. Occasionally they forget to put ANYSubject:line in at all. In this case you must add a complete, properly formatted subject line of the form:Subject: NewMember Name < newmember@email.address.com >
The completed ready-to-send profile authorization is shown in the next illustration.
Make sure signatures and added trailers are turned OFF on your mailer Signatures and trailers will end up in the members profile. Send the new member profile now.
