On Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:41:44 EDT Ben Chi <[log in to unmask]> said: >Probing this just a little deeper, is it necessary to instruct LISTSERV >to delete <listname> DBNAMES and <listname> DBINDEX so as to force a new >index to be built the next time someone does a database search, or will >LISTSERV automatically detect that that the index is stale and take care >of it? I have always done the delete, but Gruber implies that it's not >necessary. If you use the PUT command, you don't need to erase the index. If you use CMS ERASE or the like, you do. Eric