Thanks, Douglas, that makes things clearer for me. > Russ, what a subscribers ooofbot system does has *nothing* to > do with LISTSERV, regardless of version. It has *only* to do > with how the particular oofbot is written, something the user > generally cannot change. Ah. What I guess I was looking for was something the user _could_ change. I should have known that Micro$oft (it does seem to be mostly M$ Outlook users who set the things) would have the hood welded down on these, too. -- Russ St. Thomas University http://www.StThomasU.ca/~hunt/