>Here's a question that I'm sure has been asked a thousand times. >Leave it to the newbie to ask again: is there a way to add the >subscriber email address to the bottom (or top) of messages >sent to the list? > >Is this what 'BANNER' is all about? If so, just point me in the >right direction. > >Thanks, >Adam The situation is this: In your classic LISTSERV mailing list setup, you send a message to the mailing list and then the mailing list sends the message to all the subscribers using a "single message-multiple recipients" model. In other words LISTSERV batches up a thousand (or whatever; the exact number is controlled by the MAXBSMTP site configuration setting) email addresses at a time and hands off the message to its SMTP server. The SMTP commands that LISTSERV is sending would look something like: | MAIL FROM:<[log in to unmask]> | RCPT TO:<[log in to unmask]> | RCPT TO:<[log in to unmask]> [. . .] | RCPT TO:<[log in to unmask]> | DATA | Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 10:33:53 -0700 | Reply-To: Description <[log in to unmask]> | Sender: Description <[log in to unmask]> | From: Frank Q. Public <[log in to unmask]> | Subject: Sample Subject | To: [log in to unmask] | | Body of the message follows. | . | QUIT The practical upshoot of this is that the same message is sent to user1 through user1000 above. This in turn means that it's impossible to send customized messages to each subscriber using this model, and in particular that you can't include the recipient's email address in the body of the message. It _is_ possible to send customized messages to subscribers of a mailing list using LISTSERV in LISTSERV 1.8d using the Mail Merge features. This requires that you be using our LSMTP 1.1b product to handle LISTSERV's outgoing mail. Also, you'd need to put together and submit a special "mail merge job", so this can't be used for normal mailing list discussion-type messages. The Developer's Guide has more information about LISTSERV's Mail Merge features, particularly section 4.6 (which includes a bunch of sample jobs). I hope this information is helpful. Thanks, -- Jacob Haller, Technical Support L-Soft international, Inc http://www.lsoft.com/