By now everyone has received the annual renewal notice for BEE-L
subscriptions.  I admit this is not a popular exercise.  However, it does
clean up the subscription list by removing people who subscribed and left
without signing off the list, the result of which relieves the list owner of
a SIGNIFICANT volume of email.

Pitfalls to watch for in the CONFIRM exercise:

The instructions say that one can CONFIRM their subscription simply by
forwarding the confirmation notice back to
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There are two things to watch for if one follows this method to CONFIRM
their subscription.  First, forward the mail to
[log in to unmask]   DO NOT forward the mail to
[log in to unmask]

Second, if your mailed is configured to preface lines of forwarded mail with
characters (caret space is very common), the commands in the mail forwared
to [log in to unmask] WILL NOT WORK!

[log in to unmask] needs to receive exactly:
// JOB
CONFIRM BEE-L
// EOJ

If [log in to unmask] receives:
> // JOB
> CONFIRM BEE-L
> // EOJ
it will not understand the commands prefaced with caret space and your
subscription will remain unCONFIRMed.

I am not familiar with the web interface to BEE-L (I don't use it) so cannot
comment or advise about using the web interface to BEE-L to CONFIRM your
subscription.

The most failproof way to CONFIRM your BEE-L subscription is to send a
single line of mail to:
[log in to unmask]
that reads:
CONFIRM BEE-L

If subscribers do not successfully CONFIRM BEE-L by May 15, they will be
dropped from the subscription at midnight.  If you get dropped against your
wishes, resubscribe on May 16.

Administratively yours,
Aaron Morris