I replied directly to the original request for information about this, but it seems to be of some general interest, so here goes to the list. When I was working at University College Dublin, I set up a public minidisk on which LISTSERV would archive the postings to a number of locally popular lists. This makes it possible for users to LINK and ACCESS the archive (BBOARD) minidisk, and to use Rice MAIL to browse the notebooks of interest. In order to make this more user-friendly, I put together a BBOARD EXEC to do the LINK and ACCESS, and which would also give a nice display of what Bulletin Boards were available, which had changed since the last time the user had looked, and so on. I also had to make some small changes in the MAILSYS XEDIT macro. Once this was in place, users were actively discouraged from subscribing privately, and it was pointed out to them that they would economize not only on shared spool space, but also on private disk space by using BBOARD instead. My colleagues at UCD have recently announced that mail which is available using the BBOARD mechanism will be purged from users' readers after three days. BBOARD still has one or two irritating features which should be eliminated. If there is enough interest, I could have it put up on some server -- as is, of course. It would be interesting to have feedback from a wider customer base. Niall O'Reilly EARN OSI Network Operations Centre Amsterdam