> - in the current situation, even postings from occasional posters > are being blocked. and when postings are blocked, the message is > terse and cryptic (even insulting) and contains no clue about how > to workaround the problem Do you have specific recent examples of this? If it is the case it needs to be fixed. > - getting on the "approved posters" list is not well documented or > understood. for some list software this is a manual operation > requiring the list admin to edit a file; on others it is under > control of the subscriber but he/she has to "subscribe" the alternate > address using some obscure option like /NOMAIL. Perhaps in the case of namedroppers the added [ post by non-subscriber... ] note can include the instructions on how to get added to that list. Erik