 from robert elz kre munnari oz au date thu NUMBER aug NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER date wed NUMBER aug NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER from chris garrigues cwg dated NUMBER NUMBERfaNUMBERd deepeddy com message id NUMBER NUMBER tmda deepeddy vircio com i can t reproduce this error ah i think i just found the cause nmh is broken which is probably obvious from my previous mail the man page for pick and how it always used to work was that list would list messages matched nolist would supress that if sequence is given the default is nolist without sequence the default is list that s all fine but it appears now which probably means i had never used pick since i upgraded nmh last that what counts is the order of list and sequence that is if sequence comes after list the list gets turned off sequence implies nolist instead of just making nolist the default an easy workaround for this is to make sure that list is the last arg given to pick so if i run delta pick inbox lbrace lbrace subject ftp rbrace rbrace NUMBER NUMBER sequence mercury list NUMBER which is just as it should be hmmm i assume you re going to report this to the nmh folks chris chris garrigues URL vircio URL NUMBER congress suite NUMBER austin tx NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER world war iii the wrong doers vs the evil doers 