Perhaps changing your SEND value to editor (rather than owners) will do it? Following is excerpted from LISTSERV TIPS and LISTKEYW MEMO. While the TIPS says only the editor can send mail to the list, the MEMO indicates that the owner can also. I'm not sure which is correct. Your SEND value is neither; it's owners. And, your editor is "trobb". - - - - - - To set up an edited list, use the list keyword EDITOR= (net- address1),(net-address2).... and the SEND= EDITOR. All mail sent to the list will then be automatically forwarded to the first person listed in the EDITOR keyword list. Only the editors (not the owners) are allowed to mail directly to the list subscribers. Any editor can send to the list, but only the first listed editor will receive submissions. Editors receive submissions in mail messages. Make sure the Editor address is NOT a file server, list server, mailer,etc. - that may result in a mailing loop. If you need more than one editor to receive all submissions, you may create a separate (non-edited) list with just the editors subscribed. then you can use this small list, editlist in the EDITOR keyword of the edited list as follows: EDITOR=editlist,(editlist) You may also use the keyword: EDITOR-HEADER= (default value YES) to control whether mail sent to the editor includes some explanatory prose preceding the message. This preface includes the ID of the original sender and notifies the editor that s/he can forward the submission to the list and the preface will automatically be removed. If the list is merely moderated, you probably want this heading prose. If it is digested, you probably don't. ********************************* * Send= (access-level) | Editor * ********************************* Defines the category of users who can mail or send files to the list. Possibly puts the list under control of an editor. The default value is "Public". When the list is controlled by an editor, any file or piece of mail sent to the list is forwarded to the editor, who is the only person (with the list owner) to be able to actually mail or send files to the list. The network address of the editor is defined by the "Editor=" keyword (see below).