> Since subscription to your list is open, from a security perspective
> it does not make sense to have private notebooks.  You are not
> gaining any extra security, just causing a little frustration.
 
Not true in the least. With subscription set to open, listowners make
it easy to subscribe, and have a better idea, with the listserv-
generated notice, about who has access to the logs. With logs set to
public there is no way for an owner to tell who has had that access.
 
Carl Reimann