On Wed, 22 Sep 1993 12:31:17 GMT Natalie Maynor <[log in to unmask]> said: >This assumes that the list is given space to keep logs (and thus offer >digests) on the system it's running on. This is incorrect. You don't need to keep logs to enable digests. The digest data only represent a day's (or week's) traffic and is thus very small when compared to the typical archives, which keep growing until old files are removed. LISTSERV will save the digest data in a temporary file, which is reset every day (or week, etc). You do need archives to enable the index code, though. This is because an index only lists the date, size, poster and subject, and does not contain the actual text. The user orders the items he is interested in from the list archives. Eric