"Not to put too fine an "edge" on this, but HOW do you know that LISTSERV ignored them?" a very tactful response. however, TO put the fine edge on it, the inherent difficulties that most listowners have experienced with the aol interface and the idiosyncratic way it bounces messages, handles lists responses etc. would suggest to me it is NOT the platform to manage a list from. i would reiterate the suggestion of an earlier respondent to get a fee account. (i have similar reservations about hotmail, but i have never tried to manage an account from there.) i have used a yahoo account for years to address my needs for list management, and with their new 100MB mailbox limit, not counting spam towards that limit etc., i would strongly advise you to look at this option. other benefit's include: for multi-listowner lists make it an account to which all listowners have access. then any listowner can deal with list business as they (the listowners) become available, without worrying about duplication, vacation breaks etc. freeing your personal account from the overburden that sometimes accrues from list management. ready access from almost any computer, almost anywhere, firewall or not, since the messages never go to your computer (unless you download an attachemt), but are net based on yahoo's computers. a real time protection against worms etc. if your list allows attachments, to get the attachment you can first use yahoo's scanners to check it, and they are up to date scanners. (if you are at aunt jane's using her computer to check the list, are you sure that opening an attachment will not affect her computer? what protection does she have in place? uhh, for her computer... lol) it can be set nomail, to avoid redundancy in reading posts. it can be used to admonish the list, without exposing an indivdual list owner to abuse at their private account. in fact, there might be a model here for l-soft to consider in future upgrades to give true listowner flexibility via email vs. the more current trend towards web-based management. (or a selling point, since after all l-soft is a business.) in fact, an l-soft sponsored email platform exclusively for the use of listowners would not need to be based on an upgrade, but would be fully backward compatible for all versions. after all, it would just be an email host site. spam filtering etc. could be handled, and researched in an unprecedented way. btw, i am not affiliated with yahoo in any way, except to have an account there. bill salmon __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail