On 13 Aug 97 at 10:16, Bob Crovo wrote:

> I don't understand what about this posting triggered Listserv to think that
> it was meant to be a command. Can anyone help us avoid a recurrence by
> pointing out the pattern? TIA
<snip>
> >Please send mail to "a certain someone" at   some@where   if you want to
> >sign up for the focus groups on August 26.
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This looks like the SEND command (synonym of GIVE):

SEND filelist user@host

(LISTSERV ignores words like "please")

You can make it go through any way by putting 2 dashes on a line
by itself somewhere before the  "ambiguous" sentence. E.g, see the
beginning of my answer.

Francoise