At 12:36 02/07/2002 Thursday, Ahern, Shannon wrote: >Here is my question: if I have say, 6 moderators, and I have the config >set to moderators= all, name1, name2, name3, etc., if a moderator sets >himself to NOMAIL, will that prevent administrative posting-approval >email as well as listmail form being sent to them? No: MAIL/NOMAIL only applies to subscribers *of* a list, not to any "role" accounts defined within the headers. I am unsure if a moderator can be a list e.g., MODERATORS-LIST Owner= you subscribers: name1 name2 name3 Your "moderated list" definition moderators= all,(MODERATORS-LIST) Then the subscribers on the MODERATORS-LIST would be able to set themselves to mail/nomail. BUT WHY BOTHER?! If these folks can't setup email to filter, using your original config, set the time-of-day to a NTP source, and read the time-of-day, is there really any hope that they can figure out how to set themselves to MAIL/NOMAIL with all of the inherent time delays and network availability issues? BTW, another lame alternative is to have the MODERATORS-LIST with subscribers in the NOMAIL option, BUT do have a web accessible private notebook archive where they could then check postings for cookies? (If all of this sounds fishy, it's because I just had lunch at Long John Silvers (aka fish n' chips)). /Pete