On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:05:42 -0600 Kevin Williams said: >What is the limit for the length of a LISTSERV mailing list name? As documented in 7.4 of the site manager's manual: Maximum length of the list name ------------------------------- The length of the list name (that is, the name of the list file and thus the "official" name of the list) is restricted as follows: VM: 8 characters Non-VM: unlimited (starting with 1.8c; but see below) If you need a longer list name for a list running on a VM server, you should use the List-ID= keyword (see Appendix B). PLEASE NOTE CAREFULLY that L-Soft recommends using names of 32 characters or less whenever possible as they provide for correct alignment of the results returned by certain commands. Very long (program generated) list names are likely to conflict with mail system limits and L-Soft recommends other solutions to the problem of dynamically generated lists. As a rule, list names in excess of 70 characters are likely to result in mail delivery problems.