This list has been VERY helpful and responsive to my questions on using SmartList. Thank you. I have one last question concerning the arch_trunc script from the O'Reilly & Associates Managing Mailing Lists book. There seams to be a permissions problem with the directories created by the script. The script creates directories with a permission set to 2770. Here is what it looks like: drwxrws--- 4 smart smart 1024 Aug 8 09:23 . drwxrws--x 3 smart smart 1024 Aug 8 09:30 .. d-wx-wS--T 2 smart smart 1024 Aug 8 09:23 200008 drwxrws--- 2 smart smart 1024 Aug 8 09:23 latest If I try to get a dir listing of the 200008 directory the server returns an email stating: ls -l 200008 BEGIN---------------cut here------------------ ls: 200008: Permission denied END-----------------cut here------------------ What would you recommend I change the 2770 to so we can request the content of this directory? I can do a "get" to receive individual files within the 200008 directory. Since this list is not used heavily it would be useful to see what days of the month are available to "get". Thanks again for all your help. -- _________________________________________ Dave G. Bacon Computer Network Manager Outagamie Waupaca Library System 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton, WI 54911 920/832-6193(voice), 920/832-6422(FAX) dbacon@mail.owls.lib.wi.us _________________________________________