Possible reasons for rejection from a SEND=PRIVATE list: 1. Your host address changed in some way: your sysadmins changed addressing structures from a highly qualified host name e.g., d.c.b.a to a less qualified one e.g., c.b.a 2. You used the list's bitnet address instead of its Internet address (or vice versa) and your sending host, possibly being on both bitnet and Internet, has never been registered by your Network ADministrator in the BITEARN NODES db by using the UPDATE@BITNIC procedure to add an :INTERNET. tag for all equivalent FQDNs 3. You could actually be sending from a different host as far as the list is concerned (perhaps a badly configured VAX/VMS cluster?) 4. You subscribed via a TELL or $SEND, and your userid was truncated to 8 characters (assuming that you have a longer userid) and then you mail to the list which uses your longer userid. 5. Your subscription was inadvertantly deleted because of list-owner, list-mgr, or NAD screw-up Alternatives to subscribing and then setting to NOMAIL is of course setting to INDEX or DIGEST. /P