Because it was well received, I thought that fellow list-owners might be interested in this "value-added" statement that I sent to the subscribers (customers, clients, collegues) of one of our lists. Think of this as a template for you to recount your involvement in the operation of your list(s). /Pete Weiss at Penn State -- Have you noticed some things on FINAID-L that you don't always see on other electronic mail distribution lists <rhetorical> ? o few off-topic posts o lack of unsolicited bulk email aka spam o no email loops This isn't by chance, but by design and by daily interaction (as required) with subscribers, subscriber's system/network administrators, our own system administrators, list-owners at other institutions or organizations, and/or finally the anti-SPAM community. Another value-added function that we perform is to try to contact cognizant network or system administrators when you are unable to receive (FINAID-L) email. You see, we are effectively "testing" your system 20-50 times per day. Please remember that if you are having problems receiving FINAID-L, you may contact your list-owners via mailto:[log in to unmask] Please do NOT send TEST messages to your 4,225 collegues. Not only does it waste their time and our network resources, but also is quite ineffective at solving email delivery problems. Instead, contact your lists-owners. -- mailto:[log in to unmask] Tel: +1 814 863 1843 31 Shields Bldg; University Park, PA 16802-1202 USA Powered by: LISTSERV, Eudora, Netscape, mIRC, FreeAgent "Are you Y2K compliant?"