I like the idea of a DESCRIBE command a lot. The include feature would be nice, but like Jose said, allowing listowners to write a sort of presentation on the ir list and have users be able to retrieve it at will would save a lot of hassl es and keep the speed of LISTSERV up. On a slow, heavily loaded machine like ou rs, processing a list like INFO-PC takes a while because of all the extraneous stuff in the list headers that really belongs somewhere else. Can anyone give me any info on writing local commands for LISTSERV? I'd like to expand Mark's mail forwarder to notify people if there are files waiting on a certain id. ---------- David Boyes (503) 686-4394 |BITNET: 556@OREGON1 Systems Group |ARPA : 556%OREGON1.BITNET@ University of Oregon Computing Center| WISCVM.WISC.EDU UUCP: [your fav backbone]...!tektronix!uoregon!oregon2!oregon1!556