>also he might have sent the subscribe command as [log in to unmask] while >confirmation ok showed the From addres as [log in to unmask] I >have a suspicion one of these causing listserv to think there was no >previous request from this person. So which one is it? Is tehre a fix >for this? It is easy to complain, but how can LISTSERV know that something.X.EDU is the same machine as somethingelse.X.EDU? Mail systems which generate a different hostname every time are going to cause problems to LISTSERV users anyway. They will subscribe under a certain address and later be told they are not subscribed under the new address of the day. There is nothing much LISTSERV can do about it. Eric