On 19 Nov 2004 at 11:29, Listserv Manager <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Bottom line: it seems to me it would be really useful to have this > feature. I have sufficient faith in Lsoft to believe they have thought > about this before, and therefore wonder why it isn't there. You're right. We have thought of it before and it's on our list of future enhancements. Why it isn't there yet: there are many, many possible enhancements we could make. Each time we plan a new release, we have to sift through the all the enhancement requests and decide which ones provide the best value to effort ratio. Enhancements which provide high value for little effort are no brainers and we just do them. Enhancements that require a lot of effort have to be weighed against each other to see which are the most important, and which ones can be done in the time- frame we are projecting. The ones that provide little value for a lot of effort are likely to stay at the bottom of the list for a long time. I don't know off the top of my head where that one sits, but it hasn't bubbled to the top yet. The upcoming release of LISTSERV has (last time I checked - I'm sure it's increased), 159 changes, of which over 100 were direct results of customer requests. Unfortunately, this one is not among them. However, your request does make a difference, and gives this feature an extra nudge up in priority. I can't guarantee that it will make it into the following release, because so many factors have to go into these decisions of which enhancements to implement, and we are constantly reshuffling our priorities as customer requests come in and also as the Internet climate changes. For example, anti-spam features have gotten a big boost in priority and are a major part of the upcoming release. So, if you like, you could blame the spammers for making us waste so much time fighting against them. Francoise