Someone may already have answered this one, but in order to store a listname MAILTPL on VM, you have to have an entry for it in the LISTSERV FILELIST so that LISTSERV will know that the file can be stored. This is specifically a VM procedure...a list owner can PUT the MAILTPL without any trouble on the workstation versions, just be sure you've defined a password with PW ADD and have the appropriate PUT command at the top of the file. The LISTSERV maintainer could conceivably make a wildcard entry in the LISTSERV filelist to handle this: * MAILTPL OWN OWN . . . . . Dummy entry for MAILTPL files (I hope that's right--I haven't had to update a VM filelist since I left IUPUI...:)...particularly I'm not absolutely sure of the FACs.) Nathan