---------- From: Roger Merchberger Rumor has it that Jay West may have mentioned these words: the Jay, I don't want to insult your intelligence, but I've been doing listserver & mail server admin for ~~7 years, so if you do need some advice, lemme know. There is a 3rd option, and it's called TMDA, or Tagged Message Delivery Agent. (or pretty darned close) It can go right with your list, and automatically whitelist anyone who's subscribed, but anyone who's not subbed to the list, the message is held in a seperate queue for around 48 hrs. or so (it's configurable) and a confirmation message is sent back to the original sender. If the confirmation is replied to, then the original message gets submitted to the list. If it's not, after the timeout period the message just falls into the bit-bucket behind the server. ;-) ability TMDA would not give you any opportunity of "early browsing", as you wouldn't see the message any sooner than the rest of us. (Unless you were combing thru the "waiting for confirmation" queue, and you'd have to catch the message before confirmation which for most folks wouldn't take long.) TMDA can be configured to automatically whitelist anyone who confirms their first message, then is trusted after that so the only time they'd see a new confirmation message is if they mailed from a webmail address, or it can be set up to confirm every time an email arrives from a non-subscriber. Check here: http://software.libertine.org/tmda/ Oh, it can also be set up in a "blacklist" configuration as well.