Just for fun, try sending e-mail from your hearn account to Dave Giurintano <[log in to unmask]> and see what happens. I've check (vig DiG) that this host is MXed tosn01.sncc.lsu.edu which is a PMDF system, which is found in 3 Names Servers, which seem to agree on that and the IP address. SMTP VRFY and Finger are indeterminant. I don't think it's HEARN SMTP V2R2 having problems with MX. Maybe the request came thru via bitnet which truncated something ... or a GIVE cmd was issued with an incorrect userid@node? /Pete