I have to assume you want to keep people from _accidentally_ deleting themselves from the list (though that seems pretty unlikely to me), because if someone really doesn't want to receive the email, for whatever improbable reason, they might, as Scotty suggests, simply set themselves NOMAIL -- and once you've figured out how to block that, then simply put the list in a bozo filter. What conceivable function would any of this serve? Strikes me this is not a listserv issue. The problem is organizational, if there is one, and if there is one it's serious. -- Russ Russell Hunt Department of English St. Thomas University http://www.stu.ca/~hunt/