Fairly recently, I did REVIEW on the list [log in to unmask] Each time, the report told me that there were somewhere between 1400 and 1500 subscribers. I happened to refer to that number in a posting to the list, and another subscriber who had ACK enabled at the time sent me a copy of one of her acknowledgement messages, sent between the times of my 2 REVIEW commands; the acknowledgement said that her message had been distributed to some 800+ recipients. Are these figures measuring 2 different things? Is it that almost half of the subscribers use NOMAIL or DIGEST, and these are not counted? No great importance to me, really, but my curiosity was aroused, especially if I am mis-representing the number of people seeing postings when I try to say how widely read any given list is. -- Pete Hoyle - William & Mary Technology Services Computing Support [log in to unmask] - (804) 221-4357 (221-HELP)