I should note that the end users using the databases I mentioned weren't writing DISTRIBUTE jobs themselves either. We built a desktop tool that built all the jobs from text and lists stored in an Oracle database. They never say the raw email jobs or did anything more complicated than composing a mail-merge in Word-like interface and pressing "Send". Simple mail-merge really isn't all that difficult, but I agree that once you get into multi-part emails (and when you consider graphics) you have to really be a gluten for punishment. The documentation is cryptic at best, and I can assume it won't improve since I'm sure bad documentation helps the sales of Maestro. ;-) Keith Stone EDS - Airline SOA Production Engineering 5630 University Parkway Winston Salem, NC 27105 ( Phone:+1-336-744-4373(8-436) + mailto:[log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Francoise Becker Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:09 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Maestro? <snip> Frankly, I don't know why anyone except the L-Soft programmers working on Maestro would still be messing with DISTRIBUTE jobs. That's what Maestro is for. -- Francoise Becker <[log in to unmask]> Knowledge is just a click away: http://www.lsoft.com/optin.html