One of the status messages that I received during my attempt to do a little self-healing of the digest situation showed me a status of the list and no Administrator was shown. When I assume I make ... As to Harold's post he did place a subject of digest (single word) in the first posting. I was talking about regular digest postings from the list and they have the subject like "DERBYSGEN Digest, Vol 11, Issue 138" and I said that - though I may not have quoted it - different situations. Had Harold replied to one of these to seed a new conversation generally there would be a "RE: [DBY]" in front of it and he would have, and should have, cleaned it up to show what his original subject line contained. I did not suggest that he send an email to the administrator because I was under the belief there was none [listed]. Not sure where the adoptable list is or that it even existed? I had sent an email to the administrator on this subject a few days before this post and had not gotten back a reply or seen a change in behavior the list mailings. An email to the list request address with the keyword "Help" returns a list of many possible commands, one of which is "Set". Requesting "Help Set" returns a list of Set commands, one of these commands is "Set Digest". I did not actually use this method so I can only suggest that it works because it is in the Help. I believe that I had posted as my second suggestion very similar what you proposed with an "Unsubscribe" command message followed later by a "Subscribe Digest" message? This is the method I had just used to try and 'heal' my situation. I used the Request address, I was not aware that regular list address would also take service requests. As Nivard has stated this can also be done from the web page he mentioned. \s\Rick -----Original Message----- Hi Rick & Harold Rick I am not sure how you know there is no admin as the list is not adoptable at present as far as I can tell, so there should be an admin The reason there is digest in the subject line is I think that Harold has entered that word Harold, as to getting digest mode, neither method suggested would work on these lists unless there has been a recent change I am unaware of To get digest you have two choices From http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/ENG/DERBYSGEN.html Either send a mail to the lists admin (first option on the above page) and ask for them to change you to digest (its a function only admin can do) OR From the above page Using the email address you are subscribed to the list with Unsubscribe from the L (list mode) address (send a blank email with unsubscribe in the subject line and body of the mail, it must be to the "request" address) Then send an email to the digest subscribing address (has D in the address) The blued email addresses in the lists home page should generate a new mail if clicked on, if not copy and paste the address into the To address field All Rootsweb lists work in the same way Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus