I've been wondering why the default for STATS is "private", since it seems desirable (at first glance, anyway) that a list's statistics be available easily to subscribers and potential subscribers. Extended statistics apparently take a lot of CPU time, so perhaps the same issue bears on the availability of even normal statistics? I guess the question then comes down to how stats are calculated: are they updated with every new posting, or are they recalculated with every STATS command? I'd be interested in your comments on this. Regards, Taylor Roberts