Pete wrote: > Depending on GETPOST index numbers is an exercise of > futility. The LISTSERV(R) method of doing what you > want is to use the File Archives feature. See section > 8 of the List Owner's Manual for starters. That way > users can issue > > GET SCOUTS-NL xxxxxxx > > commands (actually it can be in the more general form > GET fn ft fl) While I agree that Files Archives are the way to maintain list FAQs, Daniel's idea has 3 advantages: 1) It does not take additionnal disk space since it's pointing to already existing notebook (we all know that FAQ that are not posted on-list have a very low "reading coefficient" :-) Furthermore the FAQ reminder becoming very compact can be posted weekly or semi-weekly wihtout much overhead .... 2) It simplifies the maintaining process for multiple FAQ maintainers. Each person can be responsible for different sub-topics not necessarily related ... And to update them, they only need to post a new meassage rearding one of the sub-topic they are maintaining... and send the new message number to the person posting the reminders. It eliminates the need for each FAQ maintainer being responsible for a whole topical file or the need to coordinate the updates if more than one people handle a topic. I think it is simpler to change 01010 to 01012 than: getting the file, finding the section, deleting it, pasting the new one and putting the file back ... 3) The latest complete FAQ can be easily assembled from a serie of GETPOST list n1 n2 ... nn ... GETPOST list nx ny ... nz And then be stored as File Archives if disk space allocation is sufficient... I believe having more archives vs more Notebooks is a trade off specific to each list. As usual I have a few questions: - Do the mail search jobs work with 1.8c VM ? (If I remember correctly, Pete told me that "index" does not support customization but I assumed that index and print would still work. If I remember corrrectly, Web archives won't be available for a while on VM) - Is there another way to get the post number with 1.8c VM ? - Provided that I heavily use Search Jobs should I suggest to the maintainer to get an upgrade ? (aside the probe feature ;-) -- Eric Paul-Hus, BLUES-L