>"this bothers me"). Does anyone have a good, linguistically sound >reason for discouraging this habit? It makes about as much sense Linguistically sound? Well, if the fact that Listserv is the program and list is the discussion group whose messages it manages isn't enough ... I'd say the most obvious reason is that when you tell listmembers to send commands to the listserv and they assume listserv > list because some people are too lazy to preserve the distinction, these listmembers are going to be sending those commands to the list and will be rather affronted when they're told that was wrong. >produced on WP. Am I being overly sensitive? Even if you are, you're not alone. >Thanks, Ingrid Shafer Mario Rups [log in to unmask]