In a message dated 8/20/2006 8:55:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, carlette@centurytel.net writes: Question: This non subscriber prefers to stay in the background and would rather not have tons of irrelevant posts (the surname has about 3 major families on the list and she is not interested in the other two) in her mailbox. COULD I (with her permission) sub her to the list, but put her in 'no mail' mode? Would she then be able to post from the message board whenever she wants, but not receive the mail from the list? (sounds logical, but then...what do I know Carlette- You have it just a wee bit backwards. Non-list subscribers can and always could post to a gatewayed board and have the post come through to the lists automatically--because the GATEWAY is the sender. It was also possible to moderate posts from the gateway and still allow list subscribers to post automatically because they ARE list members. The difference once the boards and lists are all migrated to the new system is that the board POSTER'S email address won't appear anywhere in the gatewayed post--so there is no way of identifying the poster as a list member or not. Therefore, if the gateway is on the accept list all gateway posts will come through automatically and if it is moderated all posts will await approval on the Pending Requests. There is no way of putting a POSTER'S address on the accept list or subbing them to the list and having that make ANY difference as to whether they can post directly or not under the new systems. Joan