It looks like the PW ADD command does not properly validate the number of arguments it is given. PW ADD pw more junk stuff will report that the password was added successfully. Normally, this probably wouldn't be a problem, but a user made a typo, and put the password as the second argument, not the first, and then had no clue what his password had been set to. It would have been nice if LISTSERV complained about an invalid number of arguments... This is with LISTSERV 1.8a. I don't know if 1.8b is different. Bill