In a message dated 11/29/2006 12:04:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, AudreyHancock1939@sbcglobal.net writes: So far, all have been spam or ads. Is there a way as Board Administrator that an automatic deletion of those items marked "Defer" can be taken care of by an automatic letter back to the sender with the message to please subcribe to the appropriate message list...or perhaps some other method. I know some may not have a message list associated with the Message Board, so perhaps this would be impossible. If a message list is associated with the board, I would think this could be done...but being no expert, I don't know. Audrey Audrey- Your question is really a LIST question involving spam coming to a mailing list and being caught in Pending Requests. It would be best to ask about this on the listowners@rootsweb.com mailing list. Joan