At 14:42 11/13/2001 Tuesday, Kathy Montgomery wrote: >"Quiet owner" status might work -- I didn't think of that. That still >requires that we add such an owner to 300+ lists. Do you know how I can do >this with, say, a Perl script? BTW, OWNER= can reference "role" function e.g., OWNER= userid@node OWNER= QUIET:,OWNER(HELP-DESK) Thus owners of the HELP-DESK list would also quietly own list-x Or another example For list-x, keyword ... OWNER= userid@node OWNER= QUIET:,(HELP-DESK) Then subscribers of the HELP-DESK list would also quietly own list-x