Aaaah, *that* :-) Well, in fact the difference-between-revised-and-mundane- LISTSERV was intended primarily as "advertisement" material, back in the days when there were only two revised LISTSERVs in the world (FRECP11 and TAMVM1). The console logs showed that 95% of help/info commands came from system adminis trators, and I wanted the info file to list the improvements over the BITNIC version. Now that revised LISTSERVs have become quite common, this information is no longer necessary; besides, a new Joe user's first encounter with a LIST- SERV machine could well be with a FRECP11-type one (you made a good point, Gary). However, the information should be made available to users who started on a BITNIC-type LISTSERV and whose host has just migrated to revised LISTSERV. So what I intend to do is to move the "improvements" section at the end of the memo, replace it with a general blurb on the purpose and operation of LISTSERV (similar to NICSERVE's LSERV INFO2). I also plan on adding a "changes since last version" section at the end of the memo (something SHORT). I must also zap the "please do not generate too much traffic on this server, FRECP11 is a dead- end node, etc." I would like to keep the keywords section, but perhaps as a separate file (this would save me time when updating it -- it appears also in LISTOWNR MEMO). The reason why the LISTSERV MEMO explanations sometimes sound a bit technical is that they were originally extracted or paralleled from LIST- OWNR MEMO, before I completely rewrote half of it (it=LISTOWNR). I'll try to fix this inconvenience when I have time ( :-( )... Eric PS: I'm leaving Texas in about an hour, so don't expect any reply before a few days.