Thanks, all. It appears when the list was created the "make listname=" entry was never done. So in effect the list never existed. Sorry for all the confusion (on my part). -----Original Message----- From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Pete Weiss Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 10:26 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: subscribers On 9/23/2011 10:15, Valdis Kletnieks wrote: > That message definitely sounds like your SMTP server has managed to > forget that a given list exists - when you create a list, you also > need a small number of "glue" aliases for "listname", > "listname-request", and so on, and it appears that the aliases for this list have evaporated somehow. And that SMTP is not your primary MX SMTP server: Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. >nslookup Default Server: vnsc-bak.sys.gtei.net Address: 4.2.2.2 > set type=mx > listserv.jmu.edu Server: vnsc-bak.sys.gtei.net Address: 4.2.2.2 Non-authoritative answer: listserv.jmu.edu canonical name = it-listserv1.jmu.edu it-listserv1.jmu.edu MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = et.jmu.edu it-listserv1.jmu.edu MX preference = 20, mail exchanger = it-listserv1.jmu.edu /Pete ############################ To unsubscribe from the LSTSRV-L list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=LSTSRV-L&A=1 ############################ To unsubscribe from the LSTSRV-L list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=LSTSRV-L&A=1