One of our LISTSERV@ASUACAD (a.k.a. [log in to unmask]) users pointed out that several of the subscribers to the lists he owned had addresses of the form [log in to unmask] . Those persons addressed their subscription requests to [log in to unmask] Their mailers routed their mail through MAILER@ASU . The mailer at ASU, PMDF, when forwarding the mail to ASUVM, substituted username@node with [log in to unmask] Now when these subscribers send mail (From: username@node) to those lists directly (addressing their mail to listname@ASUACAD instead of [log in to unmask]), LISTSERV rejects their mail on the grounds that those people are not subscribed. I do not know if this is legitimate, but BITMAIL@SUVM, for instance, seems to look at the following information in DOMAIN NAMES, :nick.ASU.EDU :mailer.MAILER@ASU BSMTP 3 :mformat.ND PU :site.Arizona State University and ship all mail addressed to [log in to unmask] to [log in to unmask] Would an additional period after ":nick" above do us any good? Another option, of course, is to change the PMDF configuration to route mail to ASUVM through NJE, rather than SMTP. Then PMDF would not attach @ASU.EDU to BITNET addresses. I am sure this problem has been discussed in the past and has been "addressed" properly. Sorry I have been in a cave all this while. Any comments will be appreciated. Incidentally, we are running LMail version 1.1d/1.7f and LISTSERV version 1.7f (FIX17F2). Shah