Rick, I think you can be on the volunteer list even if you're not officially a volunteer. If you want to, you'd put bksvol-discuss-request in the To space and the word subscribe in the subject space. While a lot of the posts are questions about scanners, validation problems, and/or scanning problems, we also talk a lot about other things -- we post when what books we're scanning or validating and talk about what's going on in ou lives. Also, Guido and Pratik. especially, post a lot of "fun" stuff, especially before and after the various conferences. Cindy __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com