There *was* (as already noted here) an extended discussion of this subject on Museum-L. My recollection is that it occurred in the Fall/early Winter (11/94- 12/94) The LISTSERV itself *does* maintain an archive of those messages. A simple (but imprecise) approach is to send a message to [log in to unmask] [No subject line] One line message which says: INDEX MUSEUM-L [Send it off] You will receive a list of the archived files by month (something like LOG9309 or LOG9311) Send another message to the LISTSERV [No subject line] One line message which says: GET [your choice, for ex.: LOG9309] [Send it off] You will receive the messsages for that month. [There are ways to enter actual searches for LISTSERVs but the way I've described is the simplest approach...] -- Tom Moritz Library/Calif. Academy of Sciences