You are not supposed to do anything. The NOTEBOOK FILELIST is supposed to be empty. There is not supposed to be any explicit entry for the archive files in the 'listname FILELIST', they are automatically appended when you INDEX the filelist. If there is no 'listname FILELIST', a fake one is generated. However, none of this happens if the INDEX command fails because, for instance, you are not allowed to GET the filelist, or because there is an explicit entry for the filelist in LISTSERV FILELIST but the filelist has not been stored yet. Eric