At 16:40 1/12/2005 Wednesday, Charles Oriez wrote: >You might even consider going one step further, and make the lists semi >moderated. On some of my lists that are open to public subscription, I >set new subscribers to moderated by default, and turn them loose only >after a couple of posts have convinced me that they aren't spammers. I >learned that one the hard way. Amen, brother! There is almost nothing worse than having a spammer invade your long-time list that you cultivated for years (or a decade) just to have your thousands of subscribers abused, and the net result having some of them unsubscribe. /Pete Weiss retired