1. Send GET xxx (HEADER command.
 
2. You get a piece of mail. Extract to a disk file, xxx.list.
 
3. Use editor to make changes. Fill in password.
 
3. Send file back using mail command: mail listserv@ricevm1 < xxx.list.
 
The procedure is  the same for CMS users. There  is strictly no advantage
to being  a CMS  user for  this, except insofar  as RECEIVE  from RDRLIST
might be simpler than  extracting a mail item to a disk  file (no need to
delete mail  headers). Your non-CMS  users must have read  somewhere that
you had to be a CMS user to do it, and they believed it :-)
 
Anyway if you  check a typical list  header you will find  that there are
several multi-line keywords.  The current method does  have the advantage
that you know exactly what the result  will be: you have all the keywords
listed on your screen. A command based method could leave you with a list
that  isn't set  the way  you thought  it would  be. And,  for multi-line
keywords, it would probably be more complicated to figure out how to tell
LISTSERV where the new line should be inserted than to simply edit a file
with your everyday editor.
 
  Eric