Ben Parker (and Lynn, indirectly) suggest DEFAULT-OPTIONS= REVIEW in- stead of DEFAULT-OPTIONS= NOPOST . Indeed, that is probably a better mechanism. Or maybe not. Maybe new subscribers should just shut up and listen for a little while. But no one has addressed the problem of converting probationary subscriptions to normal status AUTOMATICALLY after the probationary period has expired. Peter Rauch wrote privately suggesting an automatically-scheduled daily job that does a QUERY listname FOR * and scans the results for subscription dates, kicking off SET listname NOREVIEW commands as appro- priate. This comes closest to what I was looking for, but it still in- volves setting up a WAKEUP or chron job (depending on platform). Pete Weiss asked with respect to these hit-&-run posters, was the list SUBSCRIBE= OPEN or OPEN,CONFIRM ? It was the latter. /b