This is probably much more trouble than it would be worth, but I have been finding myself wishing for the ability to review some postings to my list based on selected keywords in the subject line. We allow open posting by subscribers only so we catch a good deal of the junk send in by non-subscribers. We have had problems when someone offers a collection of "activities that work" to others on the list and 200 people send in "I want a copy - me too" postings to the entire list. This is even worse when the original message was a commercial advertisement that got past us. Occasionally replies to other sorts of topics can get out of hand. It would be nice to be able to require approval for say... all messages with the word "activities" in the subject line. After a week the block could be removed and we would not have lost subscribers who don't want to spend their time deleting "me too"s. As it is, we use SEND= Editor and remove the listname from the Editor= keyword line in the list header in these cases, making the list moderated. But that is really overkill because we like the freer flow of ideas allowed by the quicker response time when the list is unmoderated. Does anyone have any ideas on possibilities for such selective moderating? We do a lot to "educate" our subscribers but out of 1200-1300 people, even a small percentage of "mistakes" can generate a lot of "junk mail". Bob --------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Ponterio | [log in to unmask] co-manager of FLTEACH | State Univ. of New York Cortland Foreign Language Teaching Forum ----------------------------------- http://www.cortland.edu/www_root/flteach/flteach.html