As far as I know, there is no way to NUMBER a digest. If this option is decided to be provided by L-Soft, I hope they poll their customers as to the priority of this viz. other options. Remember that if NUMBER becomes an options, then it must be decided in what format, what reset interval, what list-owner control must also be accounted. You might be better off requested a WEB server interface to postings. Broswers are available even on AOL ;-) The only two numbering schemes that I'm familiar with in LISTSERV are: one "separate" archiving of postings; index numbers (somewhat transient) associated with each posting in the archives. DIGEST does not relate to those numbers, but an INDEX distributon relates to the latter. /Pete Weiss at Penn State