How about auto-moderation? I came up with this idea a while back for automatically moderating mailing lists. Here's how it works: A newsgroup is set up as moderated, and the posts are emailed to the moderator (as usual). The "moderator" is a mail-to-news gateway that posts the articles if the author isn't on the disapproved list, and also automatically cancels articles that don't have the right "approved" header and aren't digitally signed by the moderator. If a person becomes a nuisance, people send their votes in to the moderator-robot, and it tallies the votes. If within XXX days more thumbs down votes are received than thumbs up votes, the person is placed on the disapproved list. The main advantage is, it's fast and easy to set up. Comments? Ed Carp, N7EKG/VE3 ecarp@netcom.com 519/824-3307 Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.3a public key an88744@anon.penet.fi If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel! -- Richard Bach, "The Bridge Across Forever"