> Hi, > > Our list requires members to use their "real name" as part of > professional communications and to discourage flaming etc. We use: > Subscription= owner,confirm > Review= Owner > Notify= yes By having Review= Owner, no one can see anyone's registered name except you. Any names shown on list messages come from the From: field of the message and has nothing to do with the subscribed name in LISTSERV. LISTSERV only checks the address to determine if the person is a subscriber, then allows the post. As an example, you have [log in to unmask] Tom Trimble as a subscriber. All you have to do is change your name to anything you want in your email client and LISTSERV will display that name in your posts. So if you want only real names in posts, you will have to require they set that properly in their email client. Aside from the obvious problems with this, AOL doesn't even send a name in the From: field. Since you have Subscription= owner, you receive all requests and you have control over the name that goes in LISTSERV's database. If you don't like what they sent, you write them and have them tell you their real name. But this only keeps the database correct, not the posts. > However, some members: > * have, I guess, subsequently registered an "anonymous" or variant, > including, . . . you guessed it: "real name", > * or their mail client uses a variant name in the "From:" line; or last > name first; or drops initials after the name; etc., thus effectively > concealing their name (although, often willing to disclose that and more > within a post). As explained above. > Is there a way to have the server "correct" the name to the > registered name? No.