Ingrid: You're right: the announcement of how many recipients are for the individual mail, not digest, index, nor nomail. Of course if you have redistribution lists or NETNEWS gateways, you don't know how many are receiving. And of course if you don't do list maintenance viz "bounces" then of course that further befuddles matters. If the list has enabled the definition of STATS, that too might prove of interest, as will searches of the archives (if any) by date range i.e., S * IN listname FROM mm/yy TO mm/yy /P