Friends, I've looked in the (beta 1.8c version of the) manual, I've done searches on the archives and yet I can't find an answer to something that *must* have been discussed on the list before. Finally, I need to add to the traffic. Is there a MAILTPL entry available to modify the message given when the list is configured for "Send= Private" and a posting is sent from a non-subscriber's e-mail address? I found SUB_CLOSED, SUB_OWNER and POST_OWNER, but I don't find POST_PRIVATE (or something equivalent). I know there are possible entries documented in the manual which aren't found in DEFAULT MAILTPL, and , I believe, other, non-documented entries which have been discussed on LSTOWN-L and LSTSRV-L. Is this a message that is unmodifiable (until some later release, perhaps)? = == The message, in brief: =================================== From: "L-Soft list server at ISC Classlists (1.8b)" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Rejected posting to [log in to unmask] You are not authorized to send mail to the XXXXX list from your [log in to unmask] account. You might be authorized to send to the list from another of your accounts, or perhaps when using another mail program which generates slightly different addresses, but LISTSERV has no way to associate [snip] = == End of the message, in brief =============================== Incidentally (for Pete Weiss's amusement :-) I used the following searches, and retrieved selectively from the rather long indexes that resulted, without finding a POST_PRIVATE equivalent: > s message private in lstown-l > s * in lstown-l where subject contains ( mailtpl or template ) > s * in lstown-l where subject contains ( mailtpl or template ) (and, I believe) > s 'not authorized' in lstown-l Thanks for any help. En paz, Steve -- Stephen W. Thompson, U. of PA, Data Administration, 215-898-1236, WWW has PGP [log in to unmask] URL=http://pobox.upenn.edu/~thompson/index.html The only safe choice: Write e-mail as if it's public. Cuz it could be.