Sherry There are some list owners/moderators who themselves aren't sure of those emails as being legitimate either. So, who knows; It has been suggested that active list participants are less likely to have received those notices than those that just subscribe and never do anything. If this whole thing goes awry, Groups.io will suffer a major PR blunder. Hopefully, it works for them in cleaning up the membership. While older grandfathered groups from some point a couple of years are exempt from paying fees, more recently established groups that go over 100 members face monthly charges. So, there is a practical reason for a clean up of sorts from a groups.io list owner here at play also. Keeping fingers crossed that I'm not effected for I have not received any such notice. list owners, BTW, can check their membership list to see who is flagged for this possible purge. If you know a list owner on a personal basis, you might privately write off-list and ask. This whole thing could end up messy; or, thinking positively, could be much ado about nothing. VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List. Archived on the World Wide Web at http://listserv.icors.org/archives/vicug-l.html Signoff: [log in to unmask] Subscribe: [log in to unmask]