Anyone give me a hand with something that seems to be very straightforward but is not working? Checked out rootsweb help site listed in initial list subscription message. Seems to me that I'm following instructions, but keep getting error message that says "unknown command This", followed by description of a procedure that doesn't match what I see on rootsweb help page. What I've been doing: 1.sending to L-request 2. typing "archive" (without the quotes) as subject 3 as message, typed "get latest/*" (without the quotes, also tried using a number instead of the *), OR typed "search Ephraim latest/*" (without quotes, looking for Ephraim Sanford, so used Ephraim as what to search for. Also tried using a number instead of *) Have also tried including "quit" (no quotes) at end. Didn't help. Have successfully used the search engine referred to on that same rootsweb page. Does that retrieve messages from the same database (except that it doesn't seem to allow to search for 1998 messages)? Thanks in advance to any kind soul who bails me out. Bruce Rockwell