At 2:25 PM -0800 11/1/00, John, Laura wrote: >In the bottom_banner section of the .mailtpl file, I put the following text: > >>>> BOTTOM_BANNER > >========================================= > >To remove yourself from this list, simply click this link: >mailto:[log in to unmask]&body=signoff%20afterbell and send the email. > >However in the Newsletter, the mailto link ended up (notice the semi-colon >after the word BODY): > >========================================= > >To remove yourself from this list, simply click this link: >mailto:[log in to unmask]&BODY;=signoff%20afterbell and send the >email. > >Is there any way to avoid this? LISTSERV assumes that something starting with & is intended as a variable substitution. If you need to include a sentence with an ampersand character, you will have to double it to bypass the substitution process, as in "XYZ &&co." Thanks, -- Jacob Haller, Technical Support L-Soft international, Inc http://www.lsoft.com/