The following is the 'canned' response I send out to those who claim the confirmation code/procedure is broken ..... ( sometimes I get a 'thank you', usually I just see their subscription take effect ... ;-) ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A quick glance at the headers indicates that you may have missed one ( NOT minor ) detail in the instructions: When you receive the confirmation request, the instructions say: 1) REPLY to the item with the message 'ok' ( it appears you did this correctly ) If this fails, which it did ( mailers/gateways/? adding confusing or invalid info ), then 2) SEND ( it appears you did a REPLY ) the message 'ok + code' in the same way you sent the original subscription request. 'ok + code' will NOT work if sent via a REPLY If your 'confirm' window has expired, please start again with a sub request - if you want me to monitor, feel free to 'inc' or /cc [log in to unmask] to all your sends/reply sequence 1) SEND sub request 2) REPLY to confirm request 3) SEND confirm code ( if necessary ) - postmast@albany ( mike )