Hi folks, I find myself in a bit of a pickle and am looking for some suggestions. My situation is as follows: We have for years now, automatically subscribed students to their "class mailing lists" and their respective "yearly mailing lists". At registration, students can indicate whether they want their e-mail address to be published (on our public ph server, etc.). The program that feeds Listserv the student names and e-mail addresses for these lists grabs ALL students from our registrar's database. If a student indicated that they wanted their name and e-mail address to be private, the word PRIVATE appears after their name when an instructor does a REVIEW of their list. The problem: A new administration policy governing access to student information is forthcoming which will prohibit an instructor who owns a list from having access to the list of students subscribed. In order to be in compliance with this new policy I thought I could create a Super List for the instructor that he or she would own and use a Sub-List=xxxxx-s for students I add which the instructor would not own. For the record, I don't think it is appropriate that an owner of any list should be restricted from the subscriber list, but my hands are tied. At any rate, instructors have been informed, and they are furious because they use their class mailing lists in ways unanticipated by management which requires access to their subscriber list (a long story left out here). I have been asked to explore other technical solutions that would keep everyone happy and be in compliance with new policy. I can only think of three solutions when I rack my brain, and I don't think the first two are possible without access to Listserv's source code and I don't like the third. They are: 1. Find a way for Listserv, when presented with a REVIEW request for these lists, to parse the subscriber list and omit any entry with the word ":PRIVATE:". (This will leave the instructor with access and the instructor can operate as before with limited REVIEW output.) 2. Find a way for Listserv, when adding subscribers, to parse the name field, and when finding the word :PRIVATE:, add this student to the sub-list=xxxx-s while adding others to the super list. (SAA) 3. Move all student mailing lists from Listserv to Graffitti (the latter is a home grown chat for courses with a web interface; hardly as functional as Listserv.). Any ideas about how I could do 1 or 2 above or has anyone else been in a similar situation and is willing to share their solution? Thanks for your time. --Trish ------------- Trish Forrest ITS - Queen's University 545-2014