Thanks, Pete! I think theere is a lot of truth in this; I know I've had to wait long intervals while waiting for the servers to catch up with my request . . . I've quoted your explanation to the listmembers so that they can understand what is going on and why, as well as know that I will use all available resources to solve "their" problem. Thanks, again. Tom Trimble At 07:53 AM 10/31/2000 -0500, you wrote: >At 21:01 10/30/2000 Monday, Tom Trimble wrote: > > >*****Using the web list-management page, some have shown "mail" and some > >have shown "digest"; it does appear that my changes are taking effect, > >however. Some have said that no change in state was made as dig was in > >effect, but I've not had any further complaint. > >It is possible that this is a problem in "timing" i.e., when a >subscription is changed from MAIL to DIGEST, some mail distributions may >still be in-transit, though the notification of change of subscription >options has already been read in the subscriber mailbox. The subscriber >perceives that the command did not take effect, even though notified, >because of the inherent delays of the list distributions, perhaps using >LISTSERV(R) Distribute algorithm and the nature of store n' forward mail hosts. > >Pete Weiss @ Penn State