I don't think you'd want to suppress the listname-REQUEST message. There are too many people out there who don't understand that if they don't send their commands to LISTSERV, nothing happens. The default acknowledgement says basically, if you wanted to write to the list owners, fine, otherwise you need to resend your commands to [log in to unmask] What I don't understand is why it's necessary for the list owner to send anything to the listname-REQUEST address. Wouldn't it be simpler to set up a mailing list (listname-OWNERS or something like that) to handle this sort of thing? Nathan