FAREWELL message variants
                           Don Wiss, 5/5/98

A nice thing to add to your list is a Farewell message. By default none is
sent when a subscriber leaves. Below you will find an example framework,
and then a variety of message bodies.

In this example you will see that there is a Subject line as the second
line. When a line like that is found, the Listserv will make it the Subject
of the e-mail sent out, otherwise it will have something bland. It will not
appear in the message body. Because of this the body text should really
start in the third line.

put <listname> farewell pw=XXXX
Subject: Farewell from the <listname> List

<put text here>

Name <address@domain.node>
(Listowner)

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Message body examples (change LIST-L to your listname):

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Thank you for being with us and all the Very Best.

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* Thank you for being with us, Take Care and Happy Numbers.

[This example came from a diet list, where people are preoccupied with
their weight.]

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Thanks for visiting LIST-L. Please keep a record of the
address and subscription commands, in case you decide to rejoin
us at some point.

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We are sorry to see you leave.

If you feel we have fallen short in our stated goals of providing a
legitimate forum for 

[you write some text for here]

through this LISTSERV, please send a message to the Listowners
<LIST-L-Request@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> and let us know your areas of
concern. Your feedback is one of the primary means of determining
appropriate changes in our operations.

If you have left because of difficulty handling the number of e-mails
you were receiving, you may find the digest version more convenient. On 
digest, you receive just one post per day of the messages posted to the 
list. To receive the digest, e-mail me to resubscribe, and ask that I set 
you to digest.

If our subject matter was simply not your desired objective, we thank 
you for visiting.

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"Your subscription to the <listname> mailing list has ended, either at your
request or due to technical problems; please do not take this personally.
If you chose to end your subscription because the number of messages you
received was more than you could manage, you may wish to try the DIGEST
option, which combines all of one day's messages into a single message. To
do this, you will need to re-subscribe with a message to LISTSERV@domain.com
that says SUBSCRIBE LISTNAME. Once you have received confirmed your
subscription, send another command that says SET LISTNAME DIGEST. You will
receive confirmation that your options have changed.

Thank you for your interest in our publications. Please check our website
regularly at http://www.xxxxx

List manager, <address>

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