The VM Mailer doesn't like some characters. For us it's the º ('6A'x). All other "National Characters" don't cause problems. LISTSERV doesn't quote names containing this character - and is probably correct. Putting such names in quotes doesn't help. Either they are single ones then LISTSERV let's them alone but of course the mailer then chokes or they are doubles then they are converted to single quotes by LSV822TO and - back to square one. Since there is the CROSSWELL option ("hack") could it be expanded to check for occurences of such "dangerous" characters too? Dunno what's harmful besides the '6A'x. Christian