Hi Kevan. I hope you do not kill your archive.It is a thankless task and you deserve kudos for undertaking it. I for one appreciate your efforts greatly, and the alternative would result in increased mail as questions answered in earlier threads were reposted. I also would have to get a bigger hard drive for keepable posts which are numerous on this list. I don't think I have ever received spam related to this mail-list. I did get some mined from the CoCo list and classicmac list I believe but I unsubscribed to those a whle ago for other reasons. Spam is a fact of life for anyone using the net. I use an altered address for newsgroups however, which cut down considerably on the spam I was receiving, but I still get some via other activities. I suspect even Yahoo or Delphi lists etc., are not secure. Surely those who object to archiving could use an altered address. Aren't there also means such as deja news' "no archive" to achieve this ? ciao larry lwalker(a)interlog.com