The bottom line is that if you are migrating from Majordomo you should use the ADD IMPORT syntax, because Majordomo does not have the concept of a "full name" field whereas LISTSERV does. The only way to bypass the need for the full name is either to use one of the workarounds that have been mentioned or to use ADD IMPORT (which will add a real name field automatically that says "(No name available)" when no name is specified). Quite frankly the real name field has saved me countless times when (for instance) some moron kept screaming to be removed from the list and he had a numeric or non-intuitive userid at some host (usually MCI or CompuServe) forwarded to his "real" userid that otherwise couldn't be reconciled. I consider it one of the best unsung features features of the software, personally. Nathan