Well, I will serve my subscribers IF they contact me through proper channels. Subscribers wouldn't be writing to you via the request address and if they ARE indeed subscribers you would still get it...the only thing discarded is NON-subscriber emails and they are 99.44% (non-scientific <g>) spam. Joan In a message dated 7/29/2012 8:18:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, wyants@sasktel.net writes: Yes, Joan, this is a solution, but it isn't a very good one. I look at it as my being here to serve my subscribers. By setting all pending requests to "Discard", I'm potentially losing legitimate subscriber posts (because they were over-size, were administrative in nature, etc.), and I'm potentially missing posts from new folks who don't understand that they have to subscribe first, and so on. Sure setting "Discard" would be a fix to the problem, but it's not a very good fix. That's not why I'm a List Admin. PSW