On Wed, 16 Nov 1994 00:39:31 -0600 Winship <[log in to unmask]> said:
 
>Oh,  one  other  thing,  which  I forgot  earlier,  which  is  based  on
>experience. It may be in the documentation somewhere but I've missed it.
>
>If you are using email to maintain a filelist
>
>GET listname FILELIST (CTL NOLOCK PW=xxxxxxxx
>
>will not  work, as  there is  a space missing  and LISTSERV  assumes the
>password  is another,  unknown,  option. Two  spaces  betweeen the  last
>option and the password are required.
 
Uh? The command preprocessor removes the PW=XXXXXX before the GET command
ever gets a  chance to examine the  syntax. I've never heard  of any such
problem, and  can't reproduce it. There  HAS been a problem  with the FOR
option failing if you put two spaces, but never with PW=XXXXXX.
 
  Eric