Nonononono, it won't work like that. If you send a line longer than 80 charac- ters in the DISTRIBUTE "data" dataset, it will get truncated since the file is transmitted in punch format. DISTRIBUTE only distributes verbatim copies of raw-card stuff, which must come in as 80-chars records in the job you send it. Otherwise it truncates. What you're supposed to do is use an exec that I'll have to write one of these days that punches the // JOB stuff and then executes a DMSDDL, DISK DUMP, CARD DUMP, or whatever. What you get then is in the format you have sent it, with all the job crap being removed (by the way, I just found a complete JCL manual and MVS installation guide for ISPF among our system doc. Don't ask me why IBM sends MVS doc to us -- they just do... *sigh*) However if you use Netdata format you should be aware that the poor ARPA-ers won't get to see anything of it. DISTRIBUTE will automatically add an envelope when sending to ARPA, but if the contents are illegible that's the sender's problem :-) Jeff said he'd like LISTSERV to send distribution notifications as mail instead of messages, so that you know from whom the files come. Should this be the default, the only possibility, an option, or what? :-) Eric