You're jumping to conclusions... LISTSERV doesn't really care about the
trailing period. I'm sure that if you send an ADD command for
[log in to unmask] again, you will find that your password is still
there afterwards (at least if it's *literally* 'user3'). Anyway, I
haven't been able to reproduce your problem. If you can reproduce it on
your machine, please send me the job and I'll try with the exact same
data. The question about NTFS was because, as you know, FAT is not a
reliable file system. It is not uncommon for NT customers who use FAT to
have strange problems that turn out to go away after a CHKDSK.
Eric