Admittedly from a newbie .... I'm trying to turn on address verification for one list as a test before turning it on for all large/active 'open' lists at this site. I do: get listname list a receive the file edit subscription= from open to open,confirm lsvput the file when I issue 'sub' from another id, I'm added to list immediately. when i do review, i see subscriptions= open,confirm shutting down and autologing listserv has no effect What obvious little detail(s) am I missing ?? - Mike Ramundo