Hello bob, Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 4:11:47 PM, you wrote: b> I am most surprised that a list like this would be so open to b> Spiders and other creepie crawlies. Other PHP mailing lists are b> fine, why can't the original and best one be one of them ? I can't see how any list at all that displays the authors email address as the From: address could ever protect you from spam of any kind. Sure you can munge the email addresses on the archives, but you can't stop a bot from subscribing or monitoring the usenet gateway. Best regards, Richard Davey -- http://www.launchcode.co.uk - PHP Development Services "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php