As I have already said 10 times, any LOCAL solution to the alternate mailer problem is STUPID. You have for example an EAN@CERNVAX gateway through which commands cannot be sent to LISTSERV@CEARN because it is not recognized as an alternate mailer. The same problem applies to LISTSERV@DEARN, LISTSERV@BITNIC, and all the other LISTSERVs in the world. Just because CEARN adds a local definition for this mailer does NOT solve the problem for DEARN, BITNIC, etc. A *global* table of all these machines is needed, and *I* am not going to maintain it. Now if someone is willing to create and *maintain* it, it's no problem to add a few lines of code to LSVXMAIL to make use of this table. Eric