I am searching for a host site for my existing mailing list, currently called the Approach Users Mailing List. Approach is a relational database application suitable for home users and small busines produced by Lotus Corp. for MS-Windows and OS/2s. I started up the Approach Users Mailing List a couple of months ago because I could not find any on-line support for the product, and wanted to gauge the level of interest in such a mailing list. From a very small start the list has now grown to around 50 subscribers, and over the past 4 week has been increasing by about half a dozen subscribers per week. I run the mailing list manually out of my dial-in menu driven account, which is fairly tedious and means that message turn-around time is typically 24 hours, but can be 2 or 3 days if I go away for the weekend. Now that the Approach Users Mailing List has proven the demand for such a mailing list, I want to re-establish it on some firmer foundations that will make it easier to maintain in the long term, and provide a better service for the subscribers. Having explored a number of options I am now convinced that establishing it as a LISTSERV mailing list is the best way to proceed, if I can find a site and LISTSERV Maintainer to take it on. I have read the List Owners manual and think I have a fair understanding of what this will require of me as the lists 'owner'. If the list does become a LISTSERV mailing list then I would propose the following: * that the name of the list be changed to something like the Lotus Approach Interest Group to be consistent with the naming of other lists. * that the general topic be all the past, present and future version of Lotus Approach (2.1, 3.0x) * that the target audience be current users of Lotus Approach, and people that offer user support for the product. I expect the number of subscribers to continue to increase, but am not sure to what extent. The current posts to the list are almost exclusively Question and Answer posts at an average of 2 or so per day. Subscribers seem to be happy to be on the list just in case they need it. This dynamic may alter if the list is changed over to LISTSERV, but I would not expect it to develop into a heavily discussion oriented list. There is no official connection between the current list and Lotus Corp. However, there is at least one Lotus Approach employee who actively participates on the list. I do not know whether their involvement is official or out of personal interest. I do not generate any income or profit of any kind from running the list. However it does costs me a number of hours each week and some of my limited Internet access time! I have conducted various searches for "Lotus" and "Approach" including in the LISTSERV List of Lists, news.lists, and the sri.com Interest Groups List of Lists, and believe that this list does not duplicate or encroach on any existing mailing list. I am aware of the on-line product services provided by Lotus on the WWW, but this does not provide for discussion between users. I would appreciate any offers of assistance. John Brown [log in to unmask]