Constance as one among those who got the "resubscribe or die" messages from the bot (???), I can tell you I have seen no interruption in service yet, nor did I follow the instructions to resubscribe. BTW, thanks for posting that you got in touch with Mike Bowers on this, so that we all didn't deluge him with complaints. this is a great list-server system, and the hit of my mornings. Sure beats the hell out of what the Chile Pepper Magazine has become. doug