You use the top banner to add a copyright statement when the copyright is NOT to be held by the poster. One example is when you set up a list to repost copyrighted material on a regular basis with the owner's permission, for instance a newsletter. Anywhere where you'd want to add a copyright manually - you can now do this automatically. Another example is an internal corporate list where all subscribers are employees and are using the list in the course of their professional activities. I suppose their employment contract is the place where it is established that they don't own the stuff they write in the course of their job and under what conditions exactly, but I also suppose the lawyers were concerned that it might not be clear to *others* that the work is owned by the company and not the poster. All in all, it doesn't matter. If a customer feels that they can't buy the product because of a tiny missing feature that concerns their lawyers, our answer is usually to implement the feature, and not to challenge their lawyers' competence. Eric