The idea of selling access to a Listserv subscription service such as the List I run doesn't sit well with me. For one thing, speaking as a Listserv postmaster, my system is run by a state funded non-profit university and our computer equipment cannot legally be used to help someone gain a profit, but I am not sure that in this case, there would be a problem in that regard since I am not a lawyer. If you provide the access to these lists from a single source to your paying customers, there will indeed probably be reduced fewer for a list's owner if you carry that list. If, however, you allow various users to post and read the list from their own accounts, than probablems such as closed accounts and such will invariably be sent to the list's owner unless you can write some sort of software protocol or set up some operational policy to deal with those matters. I guess that's what you're proposing though. In short, I am not entirely sure what you're doing is legal and I am not sure it will be advantageous to users. Sorry to say it, but what you might be doing (in light of recent discussions) is inadvertantly providing yet another gateway to Listserv and other lists for abuse by certain greedy people who want cheap advertising. Stan Horwitz Internet: [log in to unmask] Bitnet: STAN@TEMPLEVM Temple University -- Senior Consultant (My views are all mine!) Manager of the Help-Net and Suggest lists and Listserv Postmaster.