Val and all, I just thought of a temporary fix for this issue: I made an entry in the genericstable for the username KHRSRDQU, and entered [log in to unmask] as the desired translation. I tested the idea with a Listserv THANKS command, and the result came back correctly from [log in to unmask] Dave -- David Devereaux-Weber, P.E. Network Services Division of Information Technology The University of Wisconsin - Madison [log in to unmask] http://cable.doit.wisc.edu (608)262-3584