From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May) First of all, I am generally commenting on this: "I am still considering the "sign-or-delay" proposal for the toad.com server, that is, sign your articles to the list or they'll be delayed and eventually rejected." [Eric Hughes, 1994-11-28] Tim, I've not been referring to that exact proposal for some time now. In very specific detail, I have dropped the premise that they might be rejected. This happened almost immediately after this recent discussion began. I wanted to restrict discussion to what might be implemented first to avoid the (alas, unavoided) less than productive discussions about what could happen later. Was I insufficiently clear that I was now discussing a smaller proposal? What I see is that you are refusing (by omission) to address the subject at hand. I see a direct, if not intentional, effort to address something that is not what I have been talking about. "Eventually rejected" mean to me that unsigned messages will not be passed through to the list. I call this a "compelled signature" in that the signature is compulsory, not optional. This is all well and good, but it is on a different but related subject. I ask again the quetion that I specifically asked before. I'll even not abbreviate to be clear that I'm actually asking for two things. Does a marking action by the server create a compulsion to sign? Does a delay action by the server create a compulsion to sign? Eric