Hi Eric: First, before I move on to what used to be a sensitive subject back in old days, I want to thank you for all of the help you and now your staff has afforded everyone through this list--especially some years ago to us non- accademic newbies who joined in the use of your listserv software when the network opened up as the internet--to learn about listserv and list operations. Listserv just becomes better and better and still proves in most cases to be the internet discussion group medium of choice over both Usenet newsgroups and the myriad forms of Web-based group messaging schemes. The implementation of the Web interface in listserv by Lsoft has gone a long ways to deminish the number of inquiries and requests sent to all of the subscribers when one member wants to signoff, unsubscribe, remove me. As I recall that there was a routine for diverting messages that had signoff or other administrative command words in the subject line from going to the entire list. What about restoring that plus: including the first several lines of the message and including common variants like "remove" and "delete," which could all be sent on to the list owner for review. Or has anyone come up with a script that the list owner can maintain on his or her computer to screen messages and send those that pass the screen on to be circulated. Again thanks for all of the improvements since you took this on, John John DeBruyn, part time moderator and full-time lawyer, Denver CO USA P.S. Here is the message, don't see too many of these since the Web signoff has been installed and the footer installed to point the way. Actually I think the subscribers probably found this particular message with the "unsubscribe" subject line, no content and the footer about how to unsubscribe to be a bit humorous. J. > ------- Forwarded message follows ------- > Date sent: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 19:38:45 EST > Send reply to: tax law and practice discussion > <[log in to unmask]> From: "Jeffrey A. Soilson" > <[log in to unmask]> Subject: [ABA-TAX] Unsubscribe To: > [log in to unmask] > > > >> Unsubscribe, make other changes to your subscription, or > >> access > ABA-TAX message base at > http://mail.abanet.org/archives/aba-tax.html -- John DeBruyn <[log in to unmask]> Denver Colorado USA