>I send a mailinglist on rock gardening called >[log in to unmask] >to about 950 subscribers. Alpine-L was fully monitored for several >years, but in the past few months I have been slowly setting to >Editor status the more frequent posters, so that instead of my >having to confirm their postings they are asked to confirm them >themselves. All is well, except that two of the subscribers had >problems when I set their accounts to "editor" status. Their posts >never reached the software, they were never asked for confirmation, >and they were never posted. When I restored them to normal status >(so that their posts are sent to me for confirmation) the system >works as intended. [. . .] When you say their posts never reached LISTSERV, is that based on looking at the log file or just because they never received a confirmation request? My speculation is that their messages did receive LISTSERV but they never got the command confirmation becuase their ISPs are blocking mail with null return paths. (See http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/lsv-faq.stm#5.16 for more information on this problem.) This is just an educated guess, though, and you may have information that rules this out. Thanks, -- Jacob Haller, Technical Support L-Soft international, Inc http://www.lsoft.com/