On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:20:33 -0400, Stan Horwitz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>then write the output back to the original file,

Direct writing to LISTSERV *.LIST files is not supported by L-Soft and is
STRONGLY discouraged.  Fatal corruption of the *.LIST file is certain in
approx. 99.99999% of the time.