In personal e-mail (excerpted with implied permission) Peter M. Weiss +1 814 863 1843 wrote: > Just for the heck of it, please interrogate your own > subscription status to the list > > Q TANGO-L > > and see if you as a SUBSCRIBER have REVIEW set. > If so, maybe there is some latent interaction? With Peter's uncanny instinct, he zeroed right in on the cause! That was exactly the problem. To summarize the situation: "If a list editor (specified on an Editor= line) is also subscribed to the list with option 'review' then (counter to intuition) the 'review' option of the person as a list member takes precedence over the 'Editor=' status of the same person as a list editor. The net result is that one gets an 'approval loop,' if it is the first-listed Editor= who's involved, i.e., anything approved (via Resent-From:) by that editor will get sent back (to the same Editor, since he's the first-listed Editor=) for re-approval." It's not a big problem in practice since I can't think of a reason why one would WANT this combination (I got into it accidentally). But it *is* hard to figure out (if one doesn't have Peter around :-) if one DOES get into it! Shahrukh -- Shahrukh Merchant