Hi, It is always possible to set your subscription to nomail and just look at messages from the archives. Setting to nomail does not prevent you from posting. You can do this here: http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php#Change This is the way you also can stop the list emails from coming when you are going to be away and then start them again when you come back. From this same screen you can click on archive to look at the current posts and if you find a message you'd like to address, if you click on reply it will open a message in your email program. You can access this directly here: http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php#Archive In the recent onslaught of messages people didn't always change the subject heading when they changed the subject however, so if you just look at the title in the subject or the thread, it doesn't always fit the message. This is the new improved archive that David Pilling has spent a lot of time creating. You can still access the old standard version: http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbslist/old.php This allows you to download a whole month at a time. Some of the messages don't display properly in this interface however and you can't search it as you can in the archive David created just for our list. David is constantly improving things for us and we are very lucky to have his help. Mary Sue