>1. Presently a limit of 8 characters exists. I am studying a way to get > around this limit. It would involve making LISTSERV act as a gateway > to a psuedo mail-only node (a new node name) within which it would > have total freedom to assign any userid acceptable to RFC822 it wants. > While I realize LISTSERV uses MAILER to send mail, I would hate to have the ability to access a list depend on using a MAILER. Many sites do not use our mailer when sending to our users, either because they don't have a MAILER of their own or their mailer doesn't know about our MAILER. For example, mail coming through the Wisconsin ARPA gateway currently does not use MAILER. I realize that this cost might be minor compared to the other benefits Phil mentioned, such as more descriptive names, but I think we ought to keep these points in mind. Nick