On Mon, 27 Mar 1995 17:16:00 EST Bill Verity <[log in to unmask]> said:
 
>Seems to me they used to cause problems and in fact terminated the
>parameter and begun a comment.  Thus, in
>
>     REPLY-TO=LIST, RESPECT
>
>the word RESPECT was treated as a comment.  Am I imagining this?
 
A couple  versions ago  LISTSERV was modified  to recognize  the trailing
commas  and make  this  work. I  think  the  error you  saw  lies in  the
conversion from MS Word to plain text format.
 
  Eric