EDIE-CECTAL

[Mark_Mandel at DRAGONSYS.COM]

Andrea Vine posted a reference to the English Dialect Information Exchange,
evidently quoted from their welcome message:

>>>
Contributions and subscriptions are welcomed from people of an academic
background in Linguistics, dialect societies and individuals with an
interest in dialectology. If you want to send a message to the forum,
send it to:

EDIE-CECTAL at sheffield.ac.uk

If you want to subscribe, do not write to the forum, but to:

listproc at sheffield.ac.uk

with the message:

subscribe EDIE-CECTAL
<<<

I followed the directions precisely and got an error message. I am cc-ing this
note to the listserver's problem address.

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Please respond to listproc at sheffield.ac.uk

To:   Mark Mandel/Dragon Systems USA at Dragon Systems USA
cc:   edie-cectal-request at sheffield.ac.uk
Subject:  Error Condition Re: Invalid request




>SUBSCRIBE EDIE-CECTAL

No name given to SUBSCRIBE

Syntax: subscribe <list> <Your Name>

Report any problems to 'edie-cectal-request at sheffield.ac.uk'.
For a list of the available requests send a message to
          listproc at sheffield.ac.uk
with the word
          help
in the body of the message.

PS: Any subsequent requests that you might have submitted have been ignored.