Ben Parker and Pete have already answered this. If you can't use Pete's suggestion of two lists, Ben's mention of editing the archives manually is a possibility. It is not a course I would follow as a general practice, though. First, the archives are, well, archives; archives should be, by definition, as complete and untouched as possible. If you go changing things around all the time they really aren't archives, are they? Then, there is the work involved in editing the log files which make up the archives. It isn't difficult to do but is *very* labor intensive. You may have better things to do than prunning the logs constantly. And, returning to the previous point, if you delete everything anyone asks be deleted you really don't have "archives," do you? So, what is your policy going to be on this? We have nearly five years of archives. I not infrequnetly get "I am so embarrassed by what I sent to the list, would you please delete it from the archives?" messages and my invariable answer is "no." There are some horrendous faux pas of mine in there, far worse than what most people ask me to delete, but they are still there. If the archives are truly archives, that is what they are and are not to be touched except for technical problems. Either have the archives, and they truly *are* archives, or not have them at all, would be my advice. Douglas Douglas Winship Hays County, Texas [log in to unmask] Secondary AUTOCAT Listowner MEDLAB-L