Thanks, Tony. For the moment, I've settled on running rtin -S as a cron job a couple times a day, which does an automatic save of unread articles in a convenient directory structure. No expirations to worry about. It doesn't permit me to post followups conveniently, but then I only want to to read anyway, so it's all I need, at the moment. Chuck -- The Moon is Waning Crescent (8% of Full) My web site: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net -------- The young have aspirations that never come to pass, The old have reminiscences of what never happened. -- H. H. Monroe