I got a complaint from one of my lists saying that elm reports the from field as To Multiple recipients of list NOTES-X <[log in to unmask]>. Where as another list on the same machine reports the actual user who sent the message. See 2 list lines from elm below: 3 Mar 20 To Multiple recipi (40) test numero 3 10 Mar 20 Gary Bernstein (40) mac command key=interrupt How do I control what gets written? any ideas? thanks loads b. -- Beth Engelbrecht-Wiggans [log in to unmask] 333-8627 Research Programmer CCSO 1503 DCL, MC 256