Darrell- You have hit the nail on the head...it's a CHOICE and it is a choice made based upon your personal experience with YOUR lists and your choice regarding the gateway. It's all good...there is no right or wrong...RootsWeb supports us whichever choice we make as long as we ARE tending to our lists. Joan In a message dated 7/31/2012 8:48:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, darrellm@sprynet.com writes: Greetings: The fly in the ointment of the auto-discard option is this; on my lists, I was getting more crud that actually got posted to the list through the gateway than by any other route. And yet, I got -- and still get -- a fair amount of non-subscriber but "real" messages posted to the boards as well. So, for me, for my lists, in order to serve my subscribers well I have to moderate the boards gateways (it really isn't moderating, of course) AND actually process my pending requests, in a timely manner. As a result the auto-discard option is, to put it bluntly, not an option I can even consider. This is **not** a complaint. Nor is it a campaign for others to "moderate" their own board gateways. How I do it works for me, and it may not for you. But perhaps it will provide some insight into why some of us "don't just change our settings" even though we are aggravated by all the -admin address crud. Darrell