------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello First let me introduce myself. I am the co-listowner of SCOUTS-NL, a Dutch Scouting discussion list of about 250 subscribers. The list is 2 years old, and many subscribers are students who have a school account. There is an average of 10 emails a day. Much of the postings on Scouts-NL are well worth keeping, so I started making a FAQ. Ie a 'games FAQ', 'leadership FAQ', 'Summercamp FAQ', etc. But it is becoming too voluminous. I even split it up in subjects, but it keeps on growing. The new database functions of LISTERV could make FAQ-maintainers-life much easier. Below is a model of what I thought could be an entirely new setup of my FAQ: ----------------- Materials FAQ GETPOST SCOUTS-NL <many numbers> Campstoves GETPOST SCOUTS-NL <subset of numbers> Tents GETPOST SCOUTS-NL <other subset of numbers> (etc) ------------------ Then all the user should do is cut and paste the relevant GETPOST command and send it to LISTERV. That way it saves me from duplicating much of the database content, and it might be easier to maintain the digest: all I have to do is add and delete the 'getpost-numbers'. So what I would want to know if anyone else had been thinking about this, or actually has done it. Please your comments, will this work or is it better to stick to the more classical type of FAQ. BTW our host site (SurfNet.nl) does not maintain a Web database. And then a 2nd question, how do I obtain the serial number ('getpost number') from a regular posting of my list? It does seem to be documented anywhere, and I cannot find it in the header either. Thanks for any help, Daniel Kropveld, co-listowner of Scouts-NL [log in to unmask]