At 18:53 7/30/2006 Sunday, rex wrote: >How did this work out? A list I run had so many missing topic keywords that I >resorted to an autonag script that reminded people who sent such posts >that they should include a keyword. Eventually, list traffic dropped way off, >though no one complained about the nagging. I eventually disabled the script, >but traffic has not recovered. As I recall, it was the subscribers' decision to implement such a scheme; long-time subscribers are savvy and "get it." WELCOME file spells it out. Part of the idea was too reduce list traffic by mis-TOPICed (or lack thereof) Subject:. That worked :-) Oh, we have REPLY-TO= SENDER which also cuts down on spontaneous itchy trigger-fingered REPLY-ers. /P