On 11 Jan 99, at 13:55, Gilles Frydman wrote: > The small change I am asking would be to keep that email address between > similar brackets as when it is attached to a name. Otherwise, it becomes > very difficult to parse data from query results :-) > > (BTW, that's from LISTSERV 1.8d) > If you're looking to parse the data from a program, I strongly recommend that instead of using a plain old query, you use: QUERY ***GUI*** listname [FOR e-mail-address] This puts results in a computer-friendly format: ***HDR*** e-mail-address ***NAME*** firstname lastname ***OPT*** option1 ***OPT*** option2 ... ***OPT*** optionN ***SUBDATE*** date ***TOPICS*** subscriber-topics ***TOPLIST*** list-topics ***HDR*** e-mail-address (next subscriber) etc. BTW -- this is version 1.8d only... Francoise