Phil, I would appreciate your using a TEST list for that kind of purpose. Would you have used the CONTACTS list if you had had one??? There is a missing parenthesis in LSVKEYWD MEMO, right. The proper definition is Notebook= Yes,fm,Separate,Private. As for rebooting LISTSERV it is not required unless you modify the list header using a PUTC command to store it back. As soon as you issue a CMS or XEDIT command from the LISTSERV console, the keywords GLOBALV storage is pur- ged, and the same is done when you store a list back. So under normal circum- stances there is no need to reboot. Eric