I kept getting messages which revealed nothing in Pine ... just totally blank. I got totally confused, and finally decided, the next time one of these blank messages showed up, to look at the /var/spool/mail/toews file directly. This is what was in it: From [log in to unmask] Sun Jan 5 05:39:12 1997 Status: RO X-Status: I am the owner of the abpart-l mailing list. I don't know what could be happening here. Can anyone shed some light on this for me? Thank you. Bruce