I just got off the phone with the sysadmins at what I'm calling 'unhappyplace.org'. They were unhappy because they had 80K messages in their queues for a user, whose vacation program got into an email loop with Listserv. We discussed vacation rules they might use (they use Groupwise, which I'm pleased to say I know nothing about) to prevent this from happening again. The reason I'm writing is that I'd have expected listserv to have said 'Unknown command ... try HELP' fifty or so times and then to have served off the user before much damage was done. Instead, it said: 8 Feb 2002 06:45:51 -> Rejected: * Your message is being returned to you unprocessed because no command was * found in the message body. LISTSERV expects commands in the body of the * message, rather than in the message subject, because some users have no * control over the contents of the "Subject:" field on outgoing messages. 8 Feb 2002 06:45:51 Sent information mail to [log in to unmask] The sysadmins say there was text in the body of the message (the usual vacation stuff). But maybe they're wrong... that's the only thing I can think of. Any other ideas? Thanks, Jean Snow