You could write an EXEC to do this for you *while LISTSERV is stopped*. Or, if you still have a copy of EDGAR around (no, I don't ;-) ), you could set DBLANK ON and just EDGAR + FILE :-) I always wondered why they didn't port this option to XEDIT. Ah well. Anyway, blank lines get filled up as new people subscribe, so this is only an issue if you've removed a lot of subscribers forever. Eric