You've actually come close to hitting on the correct way to handle it.

Change POST_EDITOR to contain just

.QQ

That will cancel the message and it won't be sent.

Nathan

At 12:55 PM 3/11/2010 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
>I have a list with:
>
>  Send= Editor,Hold,Confirm
>
>When a non-subscriber sends a post to the list, it is correctly held
>for moderation.
>
>However, I don't want that user to receive a notification email which
>is defined in the POST_EDITOR template.  I think there's also an
>additional message that gets sent when the message is released...
>
>How can I diable these messages from being sent?  I haven't yet tried
>"blanking out" the POST_EDITOR template, maybe that would work, but I
>thought there might be a less-hacky way.
>
>Thanks,
>Ray