"Peter M. Weiss" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >This was posted to the listed Usenet group and could effect >your Netnews gateways (right, Maureen? ;-)) Oh yes ... *bigtime* Pete. ;-) (You patient soul you ... :-) ) quoting Jim McIntosh ([log in to unmask]): :What does this mean to you? If you had your list set so that posts from :the gateway were reviewed by you in an attempt to stop spams, then the way :you did this will have to change slightly. Configure the list so that it :is an edited list, and then list the subscribers as editors. For example, :if your list is FOOBAR-L and your address is [log in to unmask] then you :would set the list to: : :* Send= Editor,Hold :* Editor= [log in to unmask],(FOOBAR-L) : :Putting a list's name in parenthesis means "all the subscribers of the :list", so the editor statement above means that all subscribers can post :but that posts from non-subscribers (eg, those coming through the gateway) :are passed to the first editor (you) for approval before they are :distributed. This worked just fine. I wondered as I made the change whether usenetters might now receive the 'your message has been sent to the moderator' notification. Sure enough, they did. So I hauled out Nathan's manual and went looking for anything about the mailtpl. Also did a couple of archive searches in lstown-l. Very helpful. First, I issued a GET HWY61-L FILELIST PW=xxxxxx, and added a file descriptor to the filelist: *listowners files (not public) HWY61-L MAILTPL OWN OWN . . . . . HWY61-L mailtpls Then, I put the filelist back by making the first line of the filelist: PUT HWY61-L FILELIST PW=xxxxxx Listserv sent me back a notice that the filelist had been successfully replaced. Then I issued a GET DEFAULT MAILTPL so that I could edit the default mailtpl and PUT it back to the HWY61-L Filelist. In the default mailtpl, I found the section that sends out the message I wanted to suppress: >>> POST_EDITOR On the line below this description, I inserted: .QQ on it's own line, so that listserv would (hopefully) now stop sending out its 'your message has been submitted to the moderator' messages. I PUT the default mailtpl by making the first line of the default mailtpl: PUT HWY61-L MAILTPL PW=xxxxxx Got a message back from listserv saying that the HWY61-L MAILTPL had been successfully PUT. So now, I'm just waiting to hear from anyone on usenet that they *haven't* rec'd the 'your message has been submitted to tho moderator" messsage. What I don't understand is this: Although Listserv was sending me all this good news about my various successes, ;-) I am unable to see an entry for the HWY61-L MAILTPL when I do an INDEX HWY61-L, or when I do a GET HWY61-L FILELIST PW=xxxxxx (CTL. What's the deal? Anybody know? Listserv hardly ever congratulates me unless it means it, y'know? ;-) Thanks everybody. Maureen :-)