--- Response from <listname>-REQUEST / Eugenio Gatto. - Torino, 1995-12-27 "Can the response to messages sent to the listname-REQUEST address be suppressed ?" [Mike Ramundo, LSTOWN-L, 1995-12-26] Listname-REQUEST is a collective name for the non-quiet owners: and, normally, at least one among them has to be a human, reachable and willing to answer to (administrative) questions coming via this address. So I assume the meaning is "how to suppress copies sent to owners of user messages generated as a by-product of commands issued by owners (ADD, DEL, SET FOR), and (perhaps) subsequent user replies to those messages". 1. Issue the commands prefixing QUIET (no message is sent to users: and so there is no possibility they reply to it). 2. Customize listname MAILTPL inserting in unwanted messages a .CC OFF for suppressing copies to owners (user is notified, and if subsequent interaction with owners is needed, REPLY-TO correcly will propose listname-REQUEST). 3. Customize ... inserting a .QQ as a line immediately following the header of the message to be suppressed (as (1): but this way those commands are permanently "muted", as they were issued QUIET). 4. Customize ... deleting the .RE OWNERS line (a cumbersome solution: the user will be notified, but a REPLY will point to LISTSERV, with the final effect of being discarded because it doesn't consist of valid commands). Hope this helps. But please correct me if I answered the wrong question; certainly I wasn't able to see the link between the first question and the second one, about addressing the "list moderator": as I know, there is not a listname-EDITORS name available for collectively addressing them (but may I throw it here as a suggestion for a future enhancement of LISTSERV ?). I miei saluti. <-- Eugenio Gatto (CIDEM, Politecnico di Torino, Italia) (list owner [log in to unmask])