Susan, Good to see you back on the list! Hope things have stabilized and that they will remain so. Best wishes! Now, to subscribe the instructions are: 1. In a message addressed to: LISTSERV@listserver.isc.rit.edu 2. Subject: this line is unimportant 3. Send a very brief, one line, message consisting of the following: SUB PhotoForum "your-real-name-here" (without quotes) After sending this message the prospective subscriber will receive a message from the server asking to confirm the subscription request. We decided to do this to make it more difficult of spammers to spam the list. Simply reply as per message instructions and then a message of welcome will be sent out with further instructions. (wow, said "message" 4 times in 4 lines!) You can also get this info on web at: http://www.rit.edu/photoforum Andrew Davidhazy, andpph@rit.edu - PhotoForum on the Internet