I have a need at the present time to assign a LISTSERV password to a specific e-mail address. To complicate matters slightly(?), the e-mail address I need to assign a LISTSERV password to is actually an e-mail list itself (though not a LISTSERV list), and I have assigned the LISTSERV keyword Validate= Yes for the list in question. To give some background information, my list is presently undergoing some administrative changes, and among other things, it was decided that there needed to be a more automated process for allowing people to subscribe themselves to the list. Nonetheless, the present administrators feel that we still need to have at least active oversight into who is joining as there are specific restrictions on list membership (as this is a medical support e-mail list) and also final approval before people are added to the list. One of the administrators has designed a web form which suits our purposes quite well. All that needs to be done now is to make it possible for a specific e-mail address to be assigned a LISTSERV password, which can be coded into the automated processing script. I don't believe this is something I can do from this end. In order to set a LISTSERV password, I need to send a PW ADD command request from the address I want to assign the password for, and since that address is itself a list, that is rather problematic. Does anybody here have any ideas as to how I might solve this problem? Glenn Alperin [log in to unmask] Please respond by direct e-mail as I am not presently an active participant on this list.