Hello all, I am posting this to list for Yancey and any others who may be having problems with the digest mode. Sandra > The digests sent out by rootsweb are of Mime format. AOL converts them to a file called <unknown.mim>. You must download this file from AOL while reading your mail. (disreguard the virus message AOL prompts you with). You can either re-name the file to a name that you prefere such as <digest.txt> and open it for reading with any text reader of your choice, or you can download the file and leave it named <unknown.mim> and open it while in AOL using the File... Open... drop-down menus. Mark Whaley owner of the LYNN-ROOTS family discussion list