At 18:22 2003/01/22 -0500, Margaret King wrote: >Recently I received such a request and as I was composing >my email to the requestor, I thought to check the online >Listserv documentation to see whether L-Soft is still >concerned about this duplicate-name issue. In the 1.8e >documentation (we are actually on 1.8d but for something >like this it seemed best to look in the current docs), I >found sections on "Naming Conventions" in both the Site >Manager's manual and the List Owner's manual. Neither one >mentioned this issue at all, unless I was looking in the >wrong place.... It's still in the list owner's manual, in chapter 2.1. Chapter 2 is an overview of what you need to do to start a mailing list. >Does this mean that I can now set up lists without having >to check the name against the CataList? That would be a >great relief (and sometimes I get the feeling I'm the only >one doing it anymore anyway). This was never required; it was simply a suggestion, mostly to avoid having half a dozen lists for every conceivable subject, and/or to avoid overloading namespace for listnames that could conceivably apply to multiple subjects. You're free to call a list whatever you want, within the limits of the naming conventions. Nathan