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Paul Wayper <[log in to unmask]>
Wed, 8 Sep 1999 10:06:27 +1000
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> > If this is the wrong procedure for doing such a thing then we have been
> > doing it wrong for years, on thousands of lists.  But on the same hand it
> > has worked for us for years this way as well.  The person who is listed as
> > the Quiet Owner can send to the list and never get the postings, now
> > obviously if you subscribed them then that would change that!
>
>         Personaly, I wouldn't do that with any of my lists.  If you want a
> person to be able to POST, you don't want them as an ``owner'', because
> that is a matter of giving them full power over the list, which is
> unnescesary.  You could make them an editor, which should have the same
> effect (at least if the list is edited), but grant them no list owner
> rights.  You can also subscribe them, and set them to nomail.  Which will
> allow them to post (provided ``mere'' subscribers can post), without
> recieving list mail.

I would simply subscribe them with POST NOMAIL.

Paul

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