Maybe you could check your console logs for the 24th?

(We too are running on VM/CMS at the 1.8c level -- PW ADD is working OK).

/Pete
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> release
LISTSERV(R)-TCP/IP for VM version 1.8c, managed by:
  Helen Nulty <[log in to unmask]>
  Helen Nulty <[log in to unmask]>
  [log in to unmask]

Master nodes file version:   97/11/11 07:47:43 (VERS9711)
NJE peers file version:      97/08/01 15:09:36
Internet peers file version: 97/11/24 20:21:53
Service file version:        97/08/01 16:00:56 (VERS9708)
Running under:               CMS release 11 (SLU 509 - 370 mode)

/Pete

At 09:53 11/29/97 EST, you wrote:
|A user sends this command to listserv with the indicated result:
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|> PW ADD LUXFIAT
|Internal error, PW ADD command cancelled.
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|and as LISTSERV maintainer, I get the following message from LISTSERV:
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|Error 24 from LSVBITFD.