On Fri, 6 Jun 1997 22:26:42 -0400 Song Weaver said: >Not necessarily. You could, instead of setting people as editors in the >list header, you could SET them to editor. I.e: > > SET userid@node EDITOR FOR listname. > >This doesn't exempt them from the posts per day limit the way having them >defined as an editor in the list header does. Julie, Are you saying that because you think it's true or because you've confirmed it through trial and error? Here's a post Nathan sent to this list back in March: --- Begin --- From: Nathan Brindle <[log in to unmask]> Organization: L-Soft international, Inc. Subject: Re: self-moderation and per-user daily threshold In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:34:00 -0700 from <[log in to unmask]> On Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:34:00 -0700 Mark Drake said: >I want to add the per-user daily threshold to my list, yet maintain the >self-moderation. With EDITOR= (LISTNAME) this doesn't work, since editors >aren't limited by the posting limit. > >I was wondering, though, if someone whose subscription is SET to EDITOR >would be limited by the threshold? No, someone set to EDITOR is also allowed to post regardless of the daily per-subscriber posting limit. >Could I remove the EDITOR= (LISTNAME) in the header and add the line >DEFAULT-OPTIONS= EDITOR? Yes, but as noted, this would not alter the situation. --- End --- Seems to me like your suggestion, while appreciated and intuitively not such a bad idea, wouldn't work after all. Oh well... Thanks anyway. - Alex, list owner of POLICE-L [log in to unmask] .................................................................... Alex Rudd [log in to unmask] ARS KA2ZOO Orange, CT P.D. (Insert standard disclaimer here)