At 08:14 PM 2/25/97 -0500, Norm Aleks wrote: [snip] >Hmmm. Well, for a literal reading of the manual, *that* would be a good >one. But looking back at the logs I think I was wrong entirely about my >loop idea. I'd always assumed such a loop could happen, but though >LISTSERV ignores everything after a '--' line in my mail, it flagged >[log in to unmask] '--' as an error, same as you pointed out >(maybe because there were no valid commands ahead of it, as a way to >allow people whose required headers included -- to use LISTSERV?). I'd just like to note here that it's quite possible that a line consisting of exactly '-- ' (with nothing else on it) may be recognized as "start of signature" (by convention); and, that trailing space *is* VERY significant. Your quoted line didn't have a trailing space, but I can't tell from here whether it was originally present or where it might have been removed, of course. The possible "confusion" between '--' and '-- ' may not be at all relevant to what was going on, but I thought I'd mention it. Many people don't ever notice that the trailing space delimiting a signature is even there. Cheers, Stan ("no signature") Ryckman