Diane- My advice would be as follows: Your responsibility is the list and seeing that posts to your list are kept on-topic. The board is not your responsibility. Since you have a problem with off-topic posts coming through from the board (which is understandable in this situation) I'd add the gateway address (gc-gateway@rootsweb.com) to the list's BAN list and moderate all posts coming to the list via the gateway-- discard those that involve Manchester, the place, rather than Manchester, the surname. Forward only the on-topic posts in your pending requests to the list. NOTE: be careful to ensure that your privacy options > accept list is set NOT to discard non-subscriber pending requests -- but rather to HOLD them -- otherwise ALL gateway posted will be discarded and not held for your review. When you choose to moderate gateway posts you can't use the DISCARD option. I'd forget about the misplaced board posts because if you report them to the board admin immediately you aren't giving the board admin a chance to do his/her job. Don't assume the admin isn't doing his/her job. Moving misplaced board posts is the board admin's job, not yours. Also, with the MOVE MESSAGE function not working properly don't even assume the admin hasn't tried already to move a post and couldn't. The admin may well have marked a misplaced post already to be moved when the bug is resolved. Joan In a message dated 3/22/2009 4:41:48 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, dhettrick@earthlink.net writes: Should have had the second cup of coffee. I don't own the Manchester board - at least it's not in my account list. Still interested in the answers for other issues. And - would I now be out of line to go lodge an objection to the board post? They are so easy to deal with when they are brand new, and such a pain when they get a bunch of replies which may include real information. Diane