I just had an interesting manual show up on my desk.  It's
the DIRMAINT General Information manual for Release 4 (GC20-1836-5).
 
It looks like it addresses many of my problems with the current release
of DIRMAINT.  However (quoting page 23, "Installation Consideration"):
 
Preinstillation Checkout
         The use of DIRMAINT induces a restriction on special characters that
         can appear in a user identification.  Only those characters allowed
         in a CMS file name (A through Z, 0 through 9, @, #, $) are permitted.
         Prior to installation, you should review all user IDs in your
         directory to ensure that none of the special characters other than
         @, #, $ are present.
 
I think this is gonna choke up a LOT of Listserv lists (including this
one) if sites start installing DIRMAINT R4.
 
Any ideas?
 
                                  Valdis Kletnieks
                                  Sr. Systems Programmer
                                  Clarkson University