You have 2 choices: 1. Since you will be "stomping on toes" to put in this restriction/"punishment" anyway, you could just unsubscribe the non-contributers. 2. Create a second dummy contributors list. Copy the contirbutors to this list, but leave them on the basic list too. The basic list still has the archives and will still get all the postings. Then instead of Notebook= ...Private, use Notebook= ...(contrib-list) -----Original Message----- From: Amy Stinson [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 7:36 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Search Function On 22 Apr 2001, at 21:53, [log in to unmask] wrote: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:08:54 CDT, Amy Stinson <[log in to unmask]> said: > > web. On the other hand, I REALLY don't want to disable the archives > > for the main lists, I just want to keep certain subscribers from > > searching those archives. Question: Can I use a list exit for this > > OK.. I'll bite. What problem are you trying to solve here? Note that > if they're subscribers, they've *seen* the postings already (unless they're This is not a "social" problem. I have 6 years of archives. I run my LISTSERV on a voluntary contribution basis. Many of my subscribers WANT searchable archives, unfortunately only SOME of them are willing to contribute. So I want to make the search function available to only those that contribute. I don't mind if they manually go through the archives. In fact, many of them are nomail/web based readers. What I don't want them to do is be able to search them unless they are contributors. I can alter the web template and remove the search link, but stopping them through email will be more difficult. Will I be able to do a "list exit"? -- Amy Stinson, MCP Amy's Answers LLC http://www.amys-answers.com (under construction) Phone (317) 885-1741 Fax (317) 885-6589