Diana.. > At the time I changed the attribute, I manually eliminated > everything in the file. It is empty, but the file folder is there. Have you tried accessing maelstrom archives where you used to need a password? I did a search yesturday for cookies.txt on all of my hard drive, only found the one in the /Netscape direcotry,, deleted it again! and Still had the same deal .. got right in on one, could't on the other. By the way, that's a great hint.. I'm gonna do it ;-) But wherever listserv is setting the magic cookie .. I can't find it. using Netscape 3.0 with windows 3.0. ........Cleo [log in to unmask]