Marc Shannon found a problem in LISTSERV's handling of 'command' mailfiles: when he sends mail to [log in to unmask] (== listserv@cmuccvma), LISTSERV replies with a mailfile saying "List te.cc.cm does not exist" (the message came from [log in to unmask]). The reason for this is that LISTSERV does not "know" that CMUCCVMA == vma.cc.cmu.edu, and the mail file is therefore not treated as a command. It is therefore supposed to be a normal mailing file, and the corres ponding (and truncated) list does not exist, of course. The listname is picked from the list, where it has been put by LSVPROF before transferring the file from the list userid. Now a reply of "List (distcode) does not exist" seems to be very unfriendly... Why don't I pick the listname from the "To:" header? Just because of those darned mailing from ARPAland which do not have the destination userid in the "To:" field, when they have a "To:" field at all... *sigh* You get a mess commensurate with the protocol you've chosen (RFC822) :-( Eric