Actually, the easy way to subscribe to a list would be to send that identical command syntax to [log in to unmask], the Global List Exchange (GLX) address. All BITNIC would do is forward the request on to the appropriate LISTSERV site anyway, and just take up a few of BITNIC's clock cycles in the process. :) And that assumes, by the way, that we are talking about a list running on L-Soft LISTSERV. Nathan