Laurie: It is very touch to filter out the random single SPAMMER, similar to the determined terrorist. Unless you want to approve each new subscriber, or perhaps have a subscriber option of REVIEW (default-options=review, which you then have to approve their first few posts while they are are on new-subscriber "probation"), then you will leave yourself open to the determined. -- co-owner: INFOSYS, TQM-L, CPARK-L, ERAPPA-L, JANITORS, LDBASE-L, et -L URL:mailto:[log in to unmask] "I get paid by the millisecond"