RE: the need for the LISTSERV Maintainer to get involved in FILELIST stuff The LISTSERV Maintainer need only create the listname FILEID file with the following 2 lines and (s)he need not get involed any further: 1 *DEFAULT* OWNNAME This assumes you have the OWNNAME exit. The *DEFAULT* tells LISTSERV to store the files using the internal list counter (the number 1 in the above example gets incremented) for the name of the file on disk. Unless you're using the OWNNAME exit which then gives it a 'real' name on disk. See Ben Chi's excellent document FSV GUIDE for more information. Jim...