On 13 Aug 97 at 10:16, Bob Crovo wrote: > I don't understand what about this posting triggered Listserv to think that > it was meant to be a command. Can anyone help us avoid a recurrence by > pointing out the pattern? TIA <snip> > >Please send mail to "a certain someone" at some@where if you want to > >sign up for the focus groups on August 26. -- This looks like the SEND command (synonym of GIVE): SEND filelist user@host (LISTSERV ignores words like "please") You can make it go through any way by putting 2 dashes on a line by itself somewhere before the "ambiguous" sentence. E.g, see the beginning of my answer. Francoise