SERVE is for individual users. There are hundreds of served off entries in a typical LISTSERV. If wildcards were accepted, they would have to be processed sequentially, whereas now they are processed through a hashing table. The SERVE list is also scanned a lot more often than the the list posting filters. Allowing wildcards would slow down large LISTSERVs. Instead you can define a global list filter in 1.8b with the FILTER_ALSO variable. This supports wildcards of course and is added to the system default filter. Eric