>Can someone please tell me what the "respect" option means for header keyword >Reply-to. the "respect" option intheReply-to header keyword has the following definition: If there is a Reply-To header in the e-mail message sent to the list, then any reply to that message (unless the To: field is manually changed by the person replying) will go to the reply-to address. If there is no reply-to address in the e-mail message, then all replies to the message will go back to thelist. For example, if I sent a message to a list with Reply-To= list, respect and somebody replied to my message, since I do not have any reply-to address set up on my e-mail programI am curently using (to my knowledge), any reply to my messages to that list will go back to the list. If, on the other hand, I had a reply-to field of [log in to unmask] (something I'm prone to do in the hopes that usenet spammers will eventually be caught but which I have no reason to do via e-mail) and I sent a message to a listserv list, with reply-to= list, respect and somebody tried to reply directly to me instead of to the list with their e-mail program, my inserted address of [log in to unmask] would be the destination address of their reply. The preceding paragraph also assumes that your list subscribers are not using brain-dead e-mail programs. Many e-mail programs do not support the reply-to: header in e-mail messages, and I'm pretty darn sure that mail (the version on an OpenVMS operating system which I am currently using) does not have a reply-to address set by default, and I do not know whether it follows the standards adequately. All-In-1, an assortment of applications which includes an e-mail package, also for the OpenVMS operating system, definitely does not support any reply-to headers, although it does recognize that they exist. (not very RFC compliant on anything at all, let alone reply-to headers) Hope this helps. Glenn >Thanks -- One who refuses to speak has refused to have a voice. One who refuses to have a voice will surely be forgotten. And one who has been forgotten is never allowed to speak. Glenn Alperin [log in to unmask]