I'm not exactly sure what happened, but when I went to investigate the apparent demise of the XEmacs mailing lists, I found a truncated spam filter config file and 166416688 bytes in the system mailbox.... Fortunately simply feeding the spool file back into the listserv got all the mail sent out properly, and AFAICT things are working normally now. My apologies; I don't think I truncated the config file myself, but I sure should have noticed it more quickly. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py