Actually DIGEST and INDEX recipients <are> counted. NOMAIL recipients aren't, and as Ben noted, if you use TOPICS then your recipient count will vary depending on who is subscribed to each topic. In earlier versions (1.8c or 1.8b and earlier, I can't remember offhand) the count did reflect only non-digest and non-index subscribers who were set to MAIL (ie those who got individual messages when a posting was processed). This was changed either in 1.8c or 1.8d to reflect everyone who got the posting, either as an individual post or as a digest or index, even though some of the people reflected by the count wouldn't get their copies until the digest was cut (and even though the INDEX subscribers only got an index of subject lines). I'm fairly sure this was discussed either on LSTOWN-L or LSTSRV-L in the past couple of years, but it's Sunday and I have better things to do than search for it :) Nathan