Stupid me, mis-read what you said. Yes your solution does appear to be ideal. Much more straightforward to administer as well. Thanks for your help Duncan -----Original Message----- From: Pete Weiss [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 12 October 2000 13:31 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Using Send=Editor,Confirm SEND= PRIVATE means that only exact matches of the subscriber db can even begin to go through the rest of the control mechanisms e.g., option=review. Inexact and non-subscriber posting userids (the same in this context) never get to the Editor (defaults to OWNER), but are summarily dismissed and returned to sender. Otherwise the subscriber's options are enforced e.g., REVIEW (or NOreview), etc. At 05:56 10/12/2000 Thursday, Russell, D (Duncan) wrote: >Yea, we thought about this, doesn't this still allow non-subscriber mail to >get to the moderators ?. I was hoping to stop it getting even that far. >I guess the manual does say that the default-options=nopost is the route to >go, so I'll tough it out and make sure I get that working.