Well, someone said he got a quick response to a "help, " and my stuff to the list, rather than to listserv, seems to have no problem, and no problem sending or receiving lstown-l stuff, and I reactivated my subscritpion from my Buffalo.edu sub and commands work fine from there, so perhaps my new ISP is blocking material from the LSOFT listserv. I've sent them a note asking about that, but don't expect answer before mid-morning tomorrow. Thanks for the reply about the "help" command working quickly, 'twas the command sort of stuff I was asking about. Douglas [log in to unmask]