I have an idea for minizing the total number of class m files sitting in our reader and I wanted to bounce it off you folks to see what you think. My idea is to write a Rexx exec which takes as an argument, a userid name. This exec would transfer all of the files from that userid to my class D postmaster account. It would than receive those files into a new notebook. This notebook would contain all of the mail sitting in that person's reader. The exec would than send the file back to the user along with a separate note explalining what happened. The user can then receive the notebook and look through it with the MAILBOOK command. I do not want to generalize the exec to look at everyone's reader because I only care about the 10 or 20 people who have a large nummber of reader files. This is a bit of a drastic idea, but it would work and has the two-fold advantage of cutting down on the total number of reader files on our system and it let's people read lots of incoming mail without hitting a memory limit so quickly since any one notebook would contain only a day's mail instead of all of the mail for the past week or so. Stan Horwitz Listserv Postmaster Temple University Acknowledge to: OASIS@TEMPLEVM (or VM.TEMPLE.EDU)