As you can see, all the response has been very positive! In fact, thanks to Pat Conner's advertising of us on ANSAXNET, we have grown a bit since I posted my question/plea. I should explain that what is not automatic at the moment is the signing-on of new members. It was getting awfully discouraging to add people to a list that had so little traffic. Your responses have made me feel that our list is serving a purpose, however, and I am glad to carry on as is. Thanks to all who have sent in messages. A little housekeeping: there are two machines here at Toronto (actually there are more, but only 2 concern us): one is UTOREPAS (or vm.epas.utor- onto.ca, for those in INTERNET-land), a humanities computing machine; the other is UTORONTO. UTORONTO is the LISTSERV node, so it is the 'home machine' of REED-L. My 'home machine' is UTOREPAS. Therefore, -please send mail for the list to REED-L@UTORONTO -please send messages for me personally to REED@UTOREPAS or YOUNG@UTOREPAS -please tell people who may want to join to send a message to REED@UTOREPAS Thank you all. Abigail