Thanks Daniel and Trish for your interestings ideas regarding subscribing students to their respective Listserv lists. I had not considered just creating one list per course, but its certainly easy enough for me to implement. A couple of issues come to mind about that. How do you name each list? We keep track of our individual courses with four key identifiers. The primary identifier is an 8 digit course reference number. Each course has a unique course reference number and this number changes each semester for each course. Each course also has associated with it a title or subject line that briefly identifies the content of the course, a course number (e.g., CIS 55), and a section number. I am thinking that I should simply create a new list for each semester per course and name them using the course number and section number. We do not track instructors' email addresses so I cannot automatically assign ownership of each list to the appropriate instructor so I am thinking of assigning ownership of each of these lists to both the manager of our computer services help desk AND the general helpdesk email address. This way when an instructor contacts the help desk to request a Listserv list, all the consultant has to do is verify the identity of the instructor and get his or her email address, then use the web interface to add that instructor's email address as an owner of the list. What I would also like to do is set up a separate subdirectory under ~listserv/home for each semester, such as fall2000, summer1, spring2001, and so on and keep the list's and their archived postings in those directores so that I can easily archive and delete them at the end of each semester. Right now, all of our lists' *.list files go in ~listserv/home and their archived postings go in another directory not within ~listserv's file system, but that's owned by Listserv. Since each of our courses has a unique ref number that changes each semester, I figure its easier (and cheaper on disk space) to just delete each semester's set of course related lists and create new ones starting a few days prior to the start of the comining semester. Does this sound reasonable?