> FYI, We have developed "hashing technique" to expand capability of archiving > file, but we still can't expand for maximum number of list that can have > archive ..... If you're worried about the number of files in a directory, then you have two potential trouble spots. You've already heard how to keep the number of notebook files under control -- put each one in a directory of its own, and don't use file-per-message notebooks. The other spot is the directory which holds all of the per-list directories. Simply develop a directory structure based on the first several letters of the list name, so that the archive directory for LSTSRV-L would be .../L/S/T/LSTSRV-L/. Dennis Boone H-Net