* An ongoing debate between mark lewis and Ben Ritchey rages on ...

 ml> so you can't send in the update with a blank for that field and have
 ml> it cleared out?

Apparantly not, try it and see :) according to Sean (and my own
experience), once the email address gets set for that area, responses are
forced via email {shrug}

 ml> i've seen similar in the past when i was sending rules files to the
 ml> echolist... with the troubles that i had getting them saved over there

People send in rule files all the time and they work just fine. You
probably over-think it, just keep it simple and follow the guidelines. :)

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