On Wed, 1 Oct 1997 23:23:00 -0700 Jesse Wechsler said: >Hi all, > >Still learning the ropes, make that the webs. I never saw an answer to this >come up. > >Can someone help me out with just what a remote user is??? Are we talking >about traveling laptops checking in at hotels or something and deciding to >sign on/off?? A remote user is one who is not physically logged on the same computer as listserv. It might be a user on another computer on the same lan, or someone on the internet half way around the world. On the other hand, I could be half way around the world, but if I use the internet to telnet into the machine running listserv, and log on, then I am a local user. So, remote vs local has to do with where you are logged in, to send the commands to listserv. Harold