Could it be as simple as the list being too big to download on his local workstation ? I know that my Netscape Mailer advise me before hand it there is not enough room on my PC but ... "O tempora, O mores" ... maybe his mailer does not or hit a bad sector or the list exceed the software capacity (ie over 100k, 60k, etc ...) and it cannot update the message index files... Seems like he should go to his mail admin... Unless the binaries for the options at the end of each line cause some trouble... but I tought there were only displayables char. (AA1hl342gf kind of string)... My .02 cents (refundable if unfounded :-) -- Eric Paul-Hus, BLUES-L