At 09:18 05/17/1999 Monday -0400, you wrote: |But don't be surprised if you get a bad mail loop someday. If you are |going to do this, at least set a Daily-Threshold to put a limit on any |loops that may occur. And you may even want to refuse to accept |subscriptions from ISPs that are known to send the error messages to the |list (such as Compuserve). Personally, I think it's simpler to train my |subscribers to do the right thing. Agreed -- since each cascaded message to a list represents some non-zero amount of subscribers' time downloading and interpretting. Furthermore, as part of the Daily-Threshold=, http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8d/owner/appendb.html#keyDailyThreshold one might consider posting limits on each subscriber (the second parameter). Also relative to anti-looping avoidance, one should consider (as appropriate for one's list) * SIZELIM= http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8d/owner/appendb.html#keySizelim