As many of you may know, there recently has been serious email problems with all hotmail.com addresses subscribed to email lists. Briefly, there were 2 problems. One was misdirected mail, where a hotmail.com user received mail in their mailbox from several or many other lists to which they were not subscribed. The second and related problem was that the user may have received multiple copies of some of these same messages. I received word last night from hotmail.com that they had resolved the problem. After testing overnight I can confirm that this appears to be so. There may still be some residual misdirected mail your hotmail mailbox, but no new problem messages are cropping up. Based on our previous recommendations, it now appears safe to use your hotmail.com address to administer your list. However, we suggest you change your personal LISTSERV password just to be safe. To change your password, send the command PW RESET LISTSERV will ask you to confirm this To make a new password, send the command PW ADD ????????? (where ???????? is your new password) LISTSERV will ask you to confirm this Secondly, if you have a list which discusses sensitive and private issues and you had used the suggested command to 'disable' your hotmail subscribers, you can now restore them with the command: SET * MAIL POST FOR *@hotmail.com This command should work for all versions of LISTSERV(R). We appreciate the 'behind-the-scenes' cooperation of several people in identifying the problem and bringing a prompt resolution. -- __________________________________________________________________ Ben Parker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L-Soft international Inc. [log in to unmask] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Support Engineer