"I too would like to locate a site to house a couple of politically oriented discussion lists. How would I go about finding a server that is open to outside listowners?" Well, at the risk of appearing provacative - although my intentions are strictly the best and purely oriented towards perpetuation of information and communications - you might consider a Unix site, partially because of the Usenet's notorious tolerance for *anything*, and partly because of the growing shortage of VM LISTSERVers able to accept new lists ... Also, you can get a Unix box up and running for under $1000, if you are willing to skip luxuries, like gigabyte-sized hard disks. Having the list server running on your home machine gives you a great deal more control ( and potential for abuse, but that's nothing new ). -- richard