At 02:05 5/8/2006 Monday, John Cunniff wrote: >On L-SOFT how do I find how many messages on LISTNAME? For example, on Yahoogroups, I can find how many message within 7 days. For example, my friend went to a website and checked her group and it said like: Activity Log - 286 messages within 7 days. send this to your LISTSERV host: S * IN listname SINCE TODAY-6 Alternatively, subscribe in INDEX mode and look at the first of the seven distributions first entry #, and the last of the seven distributions last entry -- subtract the lower from the higher index # and add one. QED /pete