On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, John Witherspoon wrote: > Some time ago I recall reading or hearing about a way to set a header such > that once a subscriber had submitted his first post and had it approved by > the editor or moderator, his subsequent posts would be allowed through > automatically (i.e. once he had proved himself worthy of submitting > worthwhile material). > John, We use this approach on my list. To your DEFAULT-OPTIONS= add Review This will make REVIEW the default for all future subscribers. I presume you don't want to apply this option to existing subscribers. However, if you do, also send listserv the message: quiet set [listname] review for *@* All messages from new subscribers (or all subscribers, depending on which approach you took) will come to you. Once you have identified someone as a serious poster, change his or her option to NOREVIEW. Some people will never get changed because they remain lurkers, not posters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Judith Hopkins, Listowner of Autocat [log in to unmask] My home page: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~ulcjh AUTOCAT home page: http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/autocat/