Well,  when  you  move  a  list the  digest/index  doesn't  follow.  It's
difficult  to move  these things  around because  the database  reference
numbers might not be the same on  the two hosts, the list might be called
differently, and  on different  operating systems  and versions  the disk
files might not have the same format and may not be FTPable directly. One
option is  to create  the new  list and  leave the  old list  alive until
midnight.  It sends  its digest  and everything  and then  you close  it.
Another option is to  kill the old list right away  and either repost the
day's digest to the new list or save  it in a file and tell people how to
get it. Or you could attempt to  move the digest by transferring over the
DIGEST  and SUBJECTS  file and  adding  an entry  to DIGESTS  FILE A1  or
equivalent  with listname  followed by  two zeroes.  This however  is not
guaranteed to work, again  it may not work from unix  to VMS for instance
because the file  systems are different. In most cases  it will work from
VM  though, because  there is  special provision  in the  non-VM code  to
handle VM file format to make migration easier. At any rate, entering the
"New-List=" keyword  effectively kills the old  list and turns it  into a
simple forwarding  facility that  won't accept postings  or subscriptions
any more.
 
  Eric