At 17:58 11/18/2004 Thursday, Paul Russell wrote: >That is the only way to do it. LISTSERV does not provide a mechanism to >specify site-wide list configuration settings that apply to all lists. >If you do not like L-Soft's default settings, you must explicitly specify >the desired settings in each and every list. Though not site-wide, is the concept of a list-definition directive of .IK filename totally obsolete? Hmm, I did a google search of the www.lsoft.com site for ".ik" and found references: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8e/relnotes/v18e-2003a.html I then found six references in the 228-page PDF (all on page 43): http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8e/owner/owner.pdf rePete tired ;-)