I'm sending this to the list in case other people are interested. Also, I forgot to copy the sender's e-mail address out of the original message. :) Actually, you shouldn't send the request to classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu because that address sends mail to all the people on the list -- which is entirely distinct from the list-processing software! And the software is what you want to talk to. If it makes things easier to understand, I suppose you cuold describe the list-processing software as "the list itself" or "the list as an entity". The address for the software is listproc(a)u.washington.edu And the request you should use is set classiccmp mail digest Put the request in the body of the message. Don't add a signature. The subject doesn't matter. There are other requests. Two important ones are help and help topics The "help" request gets you a general help file. The "help topics" request gets you a short list of ALL the files you can request. To my way of thinking (which tends to start with generalities and go to specifics) the list of topics is much more helpful than having a single, general, probably misguided help file. But you may disagree. As you can see, I'm not impressed with the documentation here. It contradicts itself; it mentions features which I think are not available. (I think there's another privilege level above mine. Also, the sysadmins here do wierd things to software.) I need to bug someone about this. For prettier (though not necessarily better) dcumentation, go to ftp://ftp.cren.net/listproc since CREN are the people who wrote the list-processing software. Good luck, -- Derek