> I'm trying to do a put request to listserv, except after several tries > Listserv keeps responding with "Invalid password..." After several > attempts I started to wonder what Listserv thought I was trying and checked > the logs. It seems that 2 characters are being inserted in front of my > pw=xxmypasswd, where xx are the invalid characters. ... and those two characters are "3D"? Some mail-creating software, notably Pine, will act funny if they detect any high-order characters in the mail text you are trying to send. Pine will take all instances of "=" and translate it to "=3D". (This will thus distort any "PW=" that you need to send.) It will also insert "=20" before all end-of-line carriage returns. The solution is to either strip the mail text of all high-order characters, or find some mailer other than Pine to use to PUT that particular document. -- Roger Burns [log in to unmask]