Eric Thomas asked what the point of having digests was if they were going to be under 1000 lines. I can think of one reason. There are two digests I read on Usenet instead of subscribing. Unfortunately the Usenet feed to my university cuts off all messages over 1500 lines. At least twice a week the are digests that are cut off. My guess is that if it were easier to create digests, more of them might make it on to Usenet. I don't know if the 1500 line limit exiests only on some systems, or on most. Tim Rushing ([log in to unmask]) Washington State University