On Mon, 20 Feb 1995 18:14:13 -0500 John Buckman said:
>* There would be no way to control whether the user of "InfoMagnet LM" (list
>manager) actually is a list manager (though I could control who gets the
>software).  If they were a list manager, it would be hard to control that
>person from mucking with other lists.
 
I would certainly not be in favor of this!
 
>Unless, of course, I customize each
>copy for the lists that person is allowed to use--or create serial #s that
>we give out for each list they are allowed to manage.
 
You would need to set your list(s) to Validate= Yes and then let LISTSERV
do the verification.  Authenticating micro-based email systems is a pita.
 
>* How would users react to having things done on their behalf?  I could have
>InfoMagnet LM send the user a message saying "Jane Listmanager used your
>email address to set your subscription to digests" or something... that
>might help.
 
List Owners can already do this and LISTSERV sends out the appropriate
note (unless QUIET is used).
 
>Because InfoMagnet is activated by a serial #, I could also have the serial
># and info about that serial #s usage sent to
>[log in to unmask] to try and track InfoMagnet LM
>abuse.  But then...that raises sticky privacy issues for list managers.
 
Have Eric add a List Header field:  InfoMagnet-ID= ######
then verify against that.
 
>Now, how about a window with a list of users, and buttons such as
>"subscribe, signoff, search, settings" for that window.  You could
>control-click on a dozen users and act on them all at once.
 
Well, I wouldn't use it (I'm a command-line kinda guy) but others may find
a GUI interface easier (I know my boos would, but he wants it on a Mac).
 
>BTW - the output from "review" would have to be periodically pasted into the
>software to make this work.
 
As the List Owner it would be better to use the output from a "get listname
(nolock" so you also have the concealed users.  Heck, then you could even
interpret columns 80+ and give a window of who is set to conceal, mail,
digest, topic, etc.
Jim...