The SCIFAQ-L mailing list only redistributes articles posted in sci.answers, which is moderated and does not get much traffic, since it is only for the distribution of FAQs. So I could fiddle with the size of the checksum queue, which would solve the problem of rejecting FAQs that don't change from month to month, but not those that appear weekly, since the variance in the number of FAQs posted any given week is both high and unpredictable. This seems to be a simpler fix than making the Usenet gateway a "moderator". To answer someone's question: I am the SCIFAQ-L owner, and Errors-To is set to OWNER. I am fully aware of the problem, which is not one of configuring the existing software, but trying to do something beyond the scope of it. Una Smith Department of Biology [log in to unmask] Yale University New Haven, CT 06511 PS: Perhaps the LISTSERV help documents should be posted periodically in the Usenet newsgroup bit.admin. They might also be made into formal Usenet FAQs for cross-posting in news.answers and archival on rtfm.mit.edu. This would go a long way to educating interested Usenetters and others about LISTSERV. There are already several FAQs about mailing lists, but the various LISTSERV documents are relatively unknown: you almost have to know how LISTSERV works before you can get instructions on how to use it.