>what is the real advantage of a mailing list over phpbb anyways? The advantage over a forum is that I have 20 or so mailing list subscriptions. If these were all forums I would not participate in many of them. >> what do you use for readings the wine mailing list? >> Is there a news reader application that lets you do full text search on mailing lists? > Gmail.... That is what I use. And with the 7.X GB of storage I have almost every non spam email from all of the 20 or so mailing lists I have signed up for that have been sent in the last few years. John