June Genis writes >Another improvement, which I've suggested to Eric in the past but am >not aware of his having implemented yet, is for some protection >against retrieving too large a result. I can't recall the details >any more but on one occasion I did something wrong when attempting >to subset the nodes file and got back the index records for every >node in the net, a rather large file as you might imagine. When I have requested output that was large (200 lines was the limit, I think) from a remote listserv, I was given a polite message telling me to use SENDBACK to have the output sent as a file. All you do is preface the command with SENDBACK and it goes out as a file rather than as messages. I don't believe the limit is enforced if you and LISTSERV are on the same node. Steve Middlebrook