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. -- - bill - and Deborah, and the Hounds of Heaven: Fionna, Tulia, Carina (aka "the Monster"), and Becka visit us at: http://www.HoundsOfHeaven.com 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/