Nathan,  Jacob, and others,

Thanks for the solution.
I really did RTFM, just missed the section on doubling the ampersand.

Nathan, I prefer to have a subject so that the user's mail program won't natter at
them about not having a subject.

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- bill -

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Jacob Hailer wrote:

> >I am trying to make things simpler and easier for our list members so
> >they won't unsubscribe when they really want NOMAIL.
> >So I tried to put this in the bottom banner:
> [. . .]
> >to restart your mail click here and send it:
> >mailto:[log in to unmask]&BODY;=SET%20IRWOLF-L%20MAIL
> >
> >note the additional semicolon after the word "BODY".  This prevents the
> >user's mail reader from generating the body section of the email.
>
> LISTSERV's attempting to interpret &BODY as a substitution and is
> failing.  From section 9.3 of the List Owner's Manual:
>
> | If you need to include a sentence with an ampersand character, you will have
> | to double it to bypass the substitution process, as in "XYZ &&co."
>
> I hope this is helpful.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Jacob Haller, Technical Support
> L-Soft international, Inc
> http://www.lsoft.com/