I understand that I can do this and receive the information in a paragraph form but I have many people on my list and I want to be able to process this more efficiently. If I knew what those codes meant, I wouldn't have to do a query on many people to get a sense of who was signed up for what topics. Thanks for your help! Sandy Barnes > > Simply do a > > Q listname FOR userid@node > > You get all subscriber's options and topics. What you don't > get is the date of last listserv activtity for that user. > > > /Pete Weiss, Penn State >