Catherine, Yes you can run a list without an on-site Unix system. I'm running one from The Univ. of Texas - Pan American in deep South Texas (12 miles from Mexico, north of McAllen, TX). Our Listserve site is Texas A & M in College Station, a good 300+ miles away. Once the list is set up, most of the operation is automatic at the Listserve site, as I understand it. My list gets 200+ messages per day (a very busy list) and about the only problems we have are slow digest posts and sometimes the system goes down at A & M and they forget to tell us. The folks at my university Computer Center helped get my list set up --- and they are there w/ question if and when I have some. Other than that, I'm pretty much on my own. JackS SCRNWRIT List Owner [log in to unmask]