This threshold serves two purposes: preventing endless loops and making it possible for the list owner to prevent "surprise" flame fests from getting out of hand. Because of the first purpose, LISTSERV can't free the list automatically after a day without running the risk of restarting the loop. If that behaviour is really necessary, it is not difficult for the LISTSERV maintainer to add a daily event to WAKEPARM FILE with 'FREE listname'. The maintainer should probably be notified if you decide to free the list on a regular basis (unless you meant once a week, in which case it is no big deal). Eric