At 08:53 05/28/1999 Friday -0400, you wrote: |> Because firstname lastname are vacant fields, can a subscriber insert |> anything in here...such as an ID numbers? | |Yes. I think the only requirement is one character, a space, and at least one |more character. You can experiment with this yourself. | End Reply Remembering that LISTSERV "saves" this info and may generate it on postings or when subscribing to other lists at the same hostname. E.g., at one time another list-owner ADDed me to one of his lists with some funky "firstname lastname, etc" which showed up in the strangest of places on some mails that LISTSERV would generate -- as I recall, on administrative messages. Using two asteriskes, separated by a spce for the name will allow the subscription to complete.