I get many of these coming through for "your consideration." The xxxxxx@rootsweb.com mailing list has 1 request(s) waiting for your consideration at: http://lists9.rootsweb.com/mailman/admindb/xxxxxx Please attend to this at your earliest convenience. This notice of pending requests, if any, will be sent out daily. 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