>I am very interested in further comments on how a bot might gain >access to the content of a private notebook, since you are not fully >confident that this designation will keep them entirely out. If the bot subscribed to the mailing list before accessing the archives that would bypass the Notebook= ...Private safeguard. Presumably Subscription=Open,Confirm (or more stringent settings) would prevent that from being a problem, but I don't want to make any guarantees. Thanks, -- Jacob Haller, Technical Support L-Soft international, Inc http://www.lsoft.com/