On Fri, 5 Nov 1993 16:02:02 -0500 John F. Chandler said: ...text deleted... > ... Are >the numbers merely positional labels that automatically shift up or >down if messages are manually inserted or deleted? ... That's what I thought, and the little experiment I just tried on the TEMP-L list on JHUVM seems to confirm it. When I removed a monthly archive, subsequent "index" commands in LDBASE showed that the later messages were simply adjusted up to compensate for the deleted entries. I suspect that the NOTEBOOK's were editted between the time the index was sent to you and when you sent the LISTSERV job to fetch the notes. I don't imagine that happens all that often (at least on most lists). -jj