At 04:10 10/12/2003 Sunday, Harry Dewey wrote: >Version 1.8e allows us to reject posting from non-subscribers >(SEND=Private). It should be a simple matter to make a slight change in >1.8e to enable us to make the &LISTNAME-request PRIVATE as well. Then >we would automatically receive all &LISTNAME-requests from subscribers, >with NON-subscribers (including spammers) receiving only the >&LISTNAME-request autoreply, which I would revise to ask that >recipients contact an alternate address (a personal one, that we can all >be certain mass spammers wouldn't bother with). How about it, Eric & Co.? I have NOT tried this -- caveat emptor ... Alter your existing list: OWNER= (owner-list),QUIET:,list_owner_address where parens are required and owner-list is a NEW listserv list: SEND= (original_list) subscribers: original list's owners -- some template alteration may be required.