Hi, I'm getting plenty of subscriptions from USA and CANADA for lists such as REXXLIST or INFO-IBMPC. I don't want to handle these subscriptions, since my lists are only redistribution lists, and the original ones are located in USA. (Harri had similar problems with his LISTSERV). The problem is: If I set a list as Subscription= Open, the user gets only a message saying 'You are subscribed to the XXXX list' when he SUBscribes. Now, I see that it's a subscription from USA, and want to cancel it; but I consider doing only a DELete too strong, given the kind of mail the user receives (and given that one minute later I get my reader full of mail saying "Why did you delete me from your list?", "I am puzzled as to why I am removed from the XXXX list on the very same day that I subscribed", or somesuch), so that I have to send further explanations... I could add a warning in the list headers indicating that only european subscriptions will be allowed (as I have made, as a matter of fact), but some people tend to subscribe without REViewing the lists. Actually, the only method to have users get mail if they attempt to subscribe is to define the list as Subscription= By_Owner. This forces me to handle manually each subscription request, but allows a general disclaimer part saying "this and that kind of subscriptions will be discarded without warning". This is what I have made, but I *hate* having to maintain lists which I designed to be open. A (proposed) solution: When installing the european part of LINKFAIL, it has been suggested (I believe that by Udo Meyer; I think Phil has already said something about that) that a Service= node,node,... or Service= Country,Country... (perhaps with wildchar characters, as in Phil's proposed SUBNODE feature) keyword could be defined, allowing a list owner to specify which nodes (or countries) a list was designed to serve: a subscription from another node (or country) should simply not be honoured -- or perhaps forwarded to the appropiate peer server, if any. Anyone had similar problems? J. M. Blasco P.S. Harri: what do you do if you receive subscriptions from USA or CANADA to a list such as REXX?