> I fully understand why the mail was rejected - because of the From: > line in the mail, and I have no problem with that except that I didn't > see why a properly quoted (with the > in front) line should be taken as > a reject. > > However, I am sure that I have never seen a rejected mail item that > has had the error prefixed with the > sign. At first I too thought that the presence of the > would eliminate the problem, but that's not the case. UCLA has (or at least had) a mail system that insists on quoting the entire mail message, header and all, and although all the lines are prefaced by >, mail from UCLA repeatedly gets rejected by LISTSERV. Joan Korenman, WMST-L Listowner KORENMAN@UMBC Univ. of MD. Baltimore County [log in to unmask] Baltimore, Maryland 21228-5398