I'd like to add that I have (now useless) execs which read the lists to find nomailed etc. subscribers. Of course, I admit it's unsupported and I don't have much of an argument here, but I did find the plain-text codes as well as the dates, to be useful. (The dates were used as tie-breakers, for example, to decide which of one subscriber's several addresses was the active one.) I think the fuss here isn't that they are encoded but rather over the removal of an easily program-parsable source for that info. The output of the QUERY command simply is not easy to parse, and *that's* what's making my life difficult. IMHO, QUERY output is nice and friendly for humans with the occasional query. It ceases to be friendly when there are enough replies that you need to machine process the returned results. Bill City University of New York