Why would you possibly set it back and discard the requirement to validate? How can anyone expect in these times to have just one nutty, sophomoric, or otherwise irresponsible subscriber? To me, the risk of having someone unsubscribe an unsuspecting subscriber is far graver than the "inconvenience" of having to validate signoff requests. Best, elena >In this case, it might be helpful for Jose to set Validate= this way for a >while--a month or two--until his malicious or clueless subscriber stops >trying to unsubscribe other people. Then he can quietly set it back and >see whether the problem starts up again. >Jane