I'm not quite sure if I'm posting this message correctly or not so please let me know if I'm stepping out of turn or something. I'm a fairly new List Owner for a list on LISTSERV and this following error keeps appearing towards the bottom of the ">>> $SIGNUP Standard blurb to new subscribers" from the MAILTPL and I have no idea what it means and my attempts to fix it have failed. Any insight or help would be greatly appreciated. ---------------------------- >>> Error in line 314 of "CFS-Y MAILTPL": unknown operator - "=" <<< -> .bb &DEFOPT = '' <- ---------------------------- Line 314 in my MAILTPL reads: .bb &DEFOPT è= '' Thanks in advance! Eric Henes [log in to unmask]