Hi, I've been extracting various threads on my list into files and placing them on the fileserver. I wondered about two things: 1) would it be a good practice to reduce the size of the notebooks correspondingly as I take the various related messages out of them and place them in files? Is that commonly done on other fileservers? 2) is there any way that fileserver files can be included in Listserv searches, i.e. included in the database as searchable items? I guess I'm thinking of the researcher who searches my list without bothering to get the filelist first, and comes up empty-handed. Jeff Finlay Comoderator, H-Amstdy@uicvm An American Studies List