At 4:39 PM -0400 7/28/00, Munday, Merrick is rumored to have typed:

Actually no. Depending on the configuration, MS Outlook will wrap longer X-Command lines, whereupon Smartlist will not process them properly.

(*sigh*) Well, gee, if you tell your email client to wrap lines, and it does, why sound surprised. Simply change the settings to keep OE from wrapping. (I assume that's possible; although I don't use OE myself, certainly every other mail client I've ever used on unix, Win, or Mac allows to switch wrap on and off.)

Now you may feel that using broken MS mail clients is foolish, but ... that's what's on the machines of the people that need to do the list maintenance, so ...

But that's _not_ "broken" behavior; if you set a client to wrap, and it does, that sounds like correct behavior. Tell it not to wrap, and there's no problem. If the user doesn't understand something _that_ simple, they certainly shouldn't be a list _subscriber,_ let alone a maintainer!

(Note the pattern here...I actually expect people to _think,_ where everyone else seems to accept user error [or user stupidity] as an excuse to write complex work-arounds.)

Charlie