I think this depends on the nature of the list: the ones I run are sort of scholarly (focused on discussions of teaching, mostly) and I often find it useful to tell people that something's been discussed and there's useful information back a few mnonths, or years. But I sure see the argument for its being more like conversation, which isn't archived and shouldn't be . . . -- Russ > I've never liked archives. I had the experience of new > people coming onto my forum, browsing the archives, becoming > incensed at some previous article or other that had mentioned > them and demanding that I remove said offending articles. > (Mine are a contentious lot.) My solution was to drop > archives entirely. St. Thomas University http://www.StThomasU.ca/~hunt/