On reflection, perhaps you don't have two differnt systems, LISTSERV and a echoing/mirroring 'newsgroup.' Perhaps you see the LISTSERV archives, via a web link, as the only way to read LISTSERV material. If that is the case, set your notebook to daily, which will make it easy to delete, every two, three, four or whatever days postings. Just put that log back empty. I still don't understand, though, why you would want to tamper with archives. The archives are the history of the list, warts and all, and if you go messing with it, just because you don't like something, you've no history, in truth, no archives. I've eleven years of archives for my eldest list and I refuse to edit out *my* highly embarrassing items, let alone anyone elses. Anyway, if you are talking about reading a LISTSERV list via the web access to the LISTSERV list archives, there is no automatic expiration date, such as you have on usenet style newsgroups. And, well, LISTSERV and other such programs are about active distribution, not passive reading. Douglas