I manage 15 lists serving about fifteen hundred people who are interested in various aspects of human communications studies. The majority of these folks are professors and students who are affiliated with the humanities and social sciences. These lists, or "hotlines" as we call them, are provided through Comserve@Rpicicge which serves as an interface to our Listserv. I mention all this because I think that I may be representing the perspective of a group of users who are not all that frequently heard from. Lately I have been getting a lot of mail from confused users and all of it is in response to the automatically generated messages that one receives as one's listserv contribution percolates through the net and encounters problems here and there. The bottom line on this is that some people are confused by these messages, some are not confused but think I should see them, some are annoyed by them, and all want them to stop coming. The psychology of the situation, if I'm reading it correctly, is that my people want feedback to assure them that their posting has been processed but don't want to hear about delivery problems that are encountered along the way. I sympathize, but as far as I know, I'm unable to do anything to turn off these remote acknowledgement/problem report messages. Is it possible that there could be a fix in the works that would provide a method of re-directing or suppressing these messages? Hopefully, Tim Stephen Stephen@Rpicicge