YahooGroups (eGroups) does not decide who can see the archived messages. That is all configured by the moderators. Although I have no idea why they did that, I'm sure they have thier reasons or simply pushed the wrong button. The MNDMC (Minnesota DeLorean Club) YahooGroups list which I own/moderate has given me pretty good knoledge about how these lists work. Jim Reeve MNDMC - Minnesota DeLorean Club DMC-6960 --- In dmcnews@xxxx, jtrealty@xxxx wrote: > At what point did this E-group require signing in just to browse the > posts? [MODERATOR NOTE: This was already answered by Dave Swingle, so I feel no guilt in snipping the quote at this point.]