Shortly ago I submitted the following to LDBASE at ALBNYVM1: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tell listserv refresh piporg-l Ready; DMTCMX171I From ALBNYVM1(LISTSERV): * Filelist "PIPORG-L" has been refreshed. Ready; ldbase albnyvm1 Note: LINEDIT has been temporarily set OFF for your convenience. Connecting to LISTSERV@ALBNYVM1, please be patient. Welcome to LISTSERV@ALBNYVM1 - Release 1.7f (FIX17F2), backbone server. CPU model 3084, DASD model 3380. Enter command, or "QUIT" to exit: select * in piporg-l.(6295-6345) Search started... --> Database PIPORG-L, -1234 hits. Enter command, or "QUIT" to exit: quit Session has been cancelled. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Note that the hit count is negative. By way of background, a week or so ago we deleted some of the oldest archives and gave a subsequent REFRESH command. Just to be sure, I did it again (see above). If I look in PIPORG-L DBINDEX, the first item, 1 2 23 930701005858 FF [log in to unmask] FS Re: New York State builders"PB 7"PH 0 5 does indeed correspond to the first item in the oldest remaining archive file. PIPORG-L DBNAMES also appears to be in good order. Any idea what might be wrong or what to do about it? /b