Hi, I've just turned off list security because it was causing a big load on the machine but I thought that the action of strip was to remove these things from the active list? Do I have to remove the mmap and restart after adding strip to deny? * *bin*young* deny,strip 200 dionysos NNTPcache server V2.4.0b5 [see www.nntpcache.org] (c) 1996-2000 Julian Assange <proff@iq.org> Mar 31 2001 ready (posting ok, 49966 groups available). list active *bin*young* 215 alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female.young.moderated 982 983 y alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.young 880116 880117 y alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.young.australian.female 83840 83841 y alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.young.orientals 74958 74959 y alt.binaries.pictures.young.celebrities.retromod 23074 23075 y . group alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.young 411 No such group group alt.binaries.pictures.young.celebrities.retromod 411 No such group -- Faye Pearson, Software Development Manager, ClaraNET Ltd. Tel 020 7903 3000 The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven. -- Mark Twain