I am searching for a host site for starting a mailing list, which is currently titled the Scorpions Mailing List. The Scorpions are a German band that was really popular during the early 80s and 90s. I started making correspondance with some Scorpions fans over the internet via e-mail. Over a peiod of about a month I had made a list of all the ones that I wrote to in order to distribute things to all of them at once. I needed this option because I run a Scorpions home page. Now, there are about 30 people on my list of potential subscribers to the list. I mailed a message to all of the people on my list and got a good response about starting a real mailing list. Now that the Scorpions Mailing List has proven the demand for such a mailing list, I want to re-establish it on some firmer foundations that will make it easier to maintain in the long term, and provide a better service for the subscribers. Having explored a number of options I am now convinced that establishing it as a LISTSERV mailing list is the best way to proceed, if I can find a site and LISTSERV Maintainer to take it on. If the list does become a LISTSERV mailing list then I would propose the following: * that the name of the list be changed to something like different than just the Scorpions Mailing List. I asked the people on my list to come up with some good names. So far the possibilities are: First Sting and Media Overkill. * that the messages be available in both digest format and all the messages posted. * that the target audience be fans of the German band Scorpions. I expect the number of subscribers to continue to increase, but am not sure to what extent. The current posts to the list are almost exclusively discussion of the band, their songs, and anything related. There is no official connection between the current list and the band Scorpions. I do not generate any income or profit of any kind from running the list. However it does costs me a number of hours each week and some of my limited Internet access time! I have conducted various searches for "Scorpions" including in the LISTSERV List of Lists, news.lists, and the sri.com Interest Groups List of Lists, and believe that this list does not duplicate or encroach on any existing mailing list. I would appreciate any offers of assistance. Gilbert G. Morton [log in to unmask]