Also sprach [log in to unmask] (Peter Rauch): >Probably better than sending everyone a note and deleting them all is >to use LISTSERV's Renewal service: well, i was being facetious. mostly. renewal has the advantage of automating the clean-up and being nice about it...but with a 18,000 subscribers, i'd be more inclined to just start from scratch. either way you go about it, you're going to get lots of questions and complaints and the action that a subscriber has to take to remain subscribed is the same: only the command differs. _O_ rob woiccak |< [log in to unmask]