> Jeff, I don't get it. Why would you want to create one static toc that > you would have to maintain when with the database engine, each user > can create and structure and maintain their own, designed and tuned > to fit their particular needs? Are you trying to save some resource? > Or provide some special service? Or what? Thanks. Dave Dave, maybe you hadn't noticed, but even though listserv is enormously popular, it's like pulling teeth to get them--especially if they're humanities people--to use ALL the resources of Listserv. (The number of people who try to unsubscribe by sending to the list rather than the listserv--something, I've noticed, that happens even on this list--ought to be a good indicator of the Internet's lack of 'listeracy.' I run a list for humanities/historians/interdis people, and while I try to increase Internet awareness as we go along, I'm still amazed by the gap between real and assumed skills. Which is why I agree with you but think that the possibility that my subscribers would create their own databases is still rather remote. Yes, I would like to provide a service--the list's posts have contained valuable info from time to time on a variety of subjects, and I'd like people to have access to this in a format that is easily digestible, accessible and does not involve an immediate outlay of time on learning something too new. (I prefer the inductive method). Jeff