-Thanks for looking into the new list problems, Jesse. the first batch of posts I got were fine, but with the next 6, every other one was in code --unreadable. Then there's the problem you mentioned of the equals sign and other symbols and letters -- but those I can ignore. But I certainly do hope there's a digest option. My heart sinks when I see 16 or even 6 pieces of mail in my mailbox, and it takes more time to open, read and delete one and go on to the next -- or even delete if I don't want to read. I didn't have a problem with ads appearing in the topica digest -- the only adds were those that were part of someone's post. And I belong to another discussion group that's part of topica and there are no ads -- but maybe the fact that it's a digest has somethng to do with that. Cindy __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html