I own two lists on a VM LISTSERV and yesterday I accidentally replaced (PUT) the header for one of my lists that included a line of garbage below the actual header and the PUT wiped out my entire subscription list. So I sent the following command to the LISTSERV to get the old list (per the 1.8c List Owner's Manual) get XXXXXXX-L (old pw=xxxxxxxx where the X's are replaced with the appropriate information. After I received the old version back from the LISTSERV I added the line 'PUT XXXXXX-L LIST pw={my password} at the top and sent it back to the LISTSERV just like the instructions said. But I got the following message back for each address in the list "Invalid RFC822 address - 2AAACAA/AAAABB. Recipient ignored." The '2AAACAA/AAAABB' was different for each address. This in effect restored my subscribers list but wiped out all their individual subsription settings. I've got ~940 subscribers with Topics set. Is there any way to get back to the previous settings? -Debbie Douglass ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [log in to unmask] : May your sword always be within Systems Administrator : reach and may your Foe's skill GTE Government Systems, Needham, MA : and luck be less than your own. --