Hello there, I have one puzzling-to-me question. With version 1.8a Owners have the ability to customize the listname MAILTPL files and "put" it back to LISTSERV, without the administrator's intevention. the American U, which has a peer of my list and the MAILTPL file is read by LISTSERV, with no problem. PSU, has another peer of my list and eventhough the file exists (and I do have write access to that disk), the MAILTPL will not be read by LISTSERV. The steps at AU where the following. I'm including Jim's mail: ---------Top of File------- In order to have listserv use the MAILTPL file I merely PUTC it on Listserv's 191 disk. In order to allow you to GET and PUT it I created a MAILTPL FILEID and MAILTPL FILELIST. The MAILTPL file just had: 1 HELLAS MAILTPL HELLAS MAILTPL A1 The MAILTPL FILELIST had: *+HEL= Owner(HELLAS) HELLAS MAILTPL ALL HEL . . . . . HELLAS MAILTPL File I also added MAILTPL FILELIST to both LISTSERV FILEID and LISTSERV FILELIST. That's all there was to it. I don't know if the MAILTPL FILEID and FILELIST are necessary, but it did allow you to both get and put the MAILTPL file without my intervention. Before I did this you told me that you could not get or put the HELLAS MAILTPL file. Jim McIntosh ([log in to unmask]) The American University Washington, DC USA 20016-8019 ----Bottom of File---- Now PSU's admin (Bill Verity) told me that he has done this. I'm able to get/put the mailtpl file but it will not be read by LISTSERV, and there is no customized messages. I must mention that the same file is used in both LISTSERVs, so the chance of a wrong mailtpl file I believe is eliminated. Are there any suggestions/solutions ? Spiros Liolis