There are two problems with that. The first one is that LISTSERV is not able to create a mailing list on its own. Either the mailer or VM itself has to be told about the new list, or mail sent to that address will be rejected (this because LISTSERV is just a user that receives and processes mail, and not a set of routines running in the VM mailer). The second is that, even if LISTSERV were able to set up the list on its own, the subscribers would still have to adapt and subscribe to the new list. That may not be a problem for small, active working group type lists, but in the general case this process can easily take a week. If what you want to do is discuss specific items outside of the main stream, you may be able to accomplish that through the use of the list topics feature. Simply define a new topic and inform subscribers that people who are interested should enable that topic. The first time, you will have to QUIET SET * TOPICS=OTHER and add "Topics= Other" to the list header so that normal subscribers only see miscellaneous articles, and messages posted under a specific topic only go to people who want to see them. Eric