On Mon, 27 Mar 1995 17:16:00 EST Bill Verity <[log in to unmask]> said: >Seems to me they used to cause problems and in fact terminated the >parameter and begun a comment. Thus, in > > REPLY-TO=LIST, RESPECT > >the word RESPECT was treated as a comment. Am I imagining this? A couple versions ago LISTSERV was modified to recognize the trailing commas and make this work. I think the error you saw lies in the conversion from MS Word to plain text format. Eric