Boy howdy, you got a big problem. Cardinal rule: unless you know exactly what you are doing, and you have a system which can handle the long lines, and your typing is excellent and you remain constantly focused so you never make a mistake DO NOT TRY TO EDIT YOUR LIST AND "PUT" IT!!!! Use the various listowner commands to edit the list. To revise the listing of someone's "name" listing use QUIET ADD listname <userid@node> Given-name Surname LISTSERV saves a copy of the list when you get it so if you screw up you can restore it. However, if you put the list twice the backup is probably the first fouled version. You could try, though, won't make it any worse. Do you have a copy of the list as it was? If so what I would do is wipe the list, send a DELETE listname *@* Then start adding everyone back. If you are on VM you can do a batch ADD. If not, you may have to do an individual ADD for each person, but you can stack a lot of ADDs in one command, do fifty or so then take a break. A pain, but you'll have your list back And you can edit the names while you're at it. ;-) Good luck! You really learned the hard way, but I'm sure you'll remember it. Change the header, sure, all the time, but keep your hands off the list itself. Use the various commands; that's what they're for. Douglas Douglas Winship Hays County, Texas [log in to unmask] Secondary AUTOCAT Listowner MEDLAB-L