At 8:55 AM -0600 3/14/01, Garrie Burr wrote: >We've used the 'TELL LISTSERV /FORWARD emailaddress' command for the last few >years to forward incoming mail from a person's old account on our VM System >(where listserve resides) to their new email account on a different system. >... >What happens next: Not only is their mail forwarded on, but we find that all >the other mail on our VM System that hadn't been forwarded ALSO gets forwarded >on to where it had previously been designated to go in the FORWARD FILE. >... I assume you mean all the other mail for *this* particular person, right? That's how forwarding works. Periodically, listserv transfers all the mail from the person's reader and sends it on the the address specified in the FORWARD FILE file. -- -- Why is "abbreviated" such a long word? Why isn't "phonics" spelled the way it sounds? Bill Verity - 814-865-4758 Fax: 814-863-7049 215A Computer Building - Center for Academic Computing, Penn State University At the office - on my Mac, of course ;-)