A new list is created. Subscribers can send messages to it. They get distributed and archived ok; one can GET the logfiles too. But, if you request INDEX xxxxxx, you get a message back saying: * File "xxxxxx FILELIST" is not yet available. Is this because no xxxxxx FILELIST and/or xxxxxx FILEID have been explicitly created by the LISTSERV manager/owner? I thought that even if there is no xxxxxx FILELIST, a virtual one is created and sent to a subscriber in response to an INDEX xxxxxx, or GET xxxxxx FILELIST, showing the LOG files. Peter