The same thing happened to me. It was a case of "ships passing in the night." (1) Day 1. VERS9107 arrives and I generate a new BITEARN NODES but do not put it on the mini-disk visible to LISTSERV. (2) Day 2. LISTSERV 1.7a arrives causing a re-build of the BITEARN NODES indices. (3) Day 3. I make the new BITEARN NODES visible to LISTSERV. I.e. copy BITEARN NODES A = = c (OLDD. Note the OLDD option. Since BITEARN NODES is older than the indices LISTSERV doesn't see any reason to rebuild the indices. So I have a BITEARN NODES as of VERS 9107 and a set of indices built for VERS9106. Confusion reigns. Glenn A. Malling (NETMAN@SUVM) or [log in to unmask] Computing & Network Services (315)-443-4111 Machinery Hall Syracuse University Syracuse, New York 13244