At 01:01 PM 12/20/96 -0500, you wrote: >American.edu and Jim McIntosh, et al, provide an EXTREMELY valuable service >with their gateway, and I'm sure this thread isn't intended by anyone to >knock it. What it does seem to indicate though is that there is a I worship the man and the institution. :) >have had a chance to remove spam? Is there any way the rest of us can >facilitate the maintenance and/or enhancement of news-to-list gateways? I would think the easiest long-term solution (in the grand scheme) would be to have one more user setting - "Nospam", settable only by the list owner; much like the existing "Norenew". This would allow the listowner to pry open closed subscribers who've been tagged as spamsters (which I'd think could happen for a small variety of reasons other than spam). I don't know how "universal" this need is; it may only be those of us with gated newsgroups that need it, but I think that option would provide the most flexibility. Philo [log in to unmask] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Londo, remember what I said about there must be a better way? I was wrong. Kill him!" -Vir