Good point, also since the email address needs to be the first field the select * may not have produced the desired results. I also hope that table doesn't have a few million rows in it since ListServ is going to create a email for each row whether he likes it or not. (If there's something in that first column that looks like an email address). Keith Stone EDS - Airline SOA Production Engineering 5630 University Parkway Winston Salem, NC 27105 ( Phone:+1-336-744-4373(8-436) + mailto:[log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Francoise Becker Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:24 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Mail-merge Format How much data is getting transferred from the database? It may be that it's telling you exactly the truth (it's processing) and its just that the database pull is taking a very long time.