Martin Gregorie: >For some reason I don't understand, but probably commercial since >Crossover ran/runs the forum, they were unwilling to to do anything more >than use human volunteer moderators to block forum spam and were totally >unwilling and/or unable to fit a spam filter between the forum and the >mailing list. Mhm. Seeing the mentioning of moderators, i remember threads in which the moderator wrote 'case closed'. Such can only be done in a forum and not in a mailing list or a newsgroup. If someone disagreed with the decision of the moderator and wrote still a reply, it would appear on the forum because of the connection. To stop the defiance of the moderator, closing the connection seems desirable. Power? *fg* Hartmut