Eric, I never did say that LDBASE did not work as designed. I only did not get the answer to the question I had. On the UGA LISTSERVer this problem has now been effectively solved by changing the access-level of the MAILBOOK notebook settings. I think I'll use this occassion to thank you for all the work you put into the LISTSERV concept, and extent it to LISTSERV maintainers for their prompt reaction on the problem I had. Keep on the good work ||| Thanks again, Michel