At 12:47 AM 12/31/97 EST, Rain Goddess wrote:
>Maybe I've missed something here or forgotten a part of
>the original post, but if I understand you correctly, you
>have an announcements-only list, where there is only one
>poster (you), and you want to bypass the approval
>mechanism for your own posts.
>
>So why not just set every other subscriber to NOPOST by
>sending the command:
>
>SET listname NOPOST for *@*
>
>You can then reset your own addres to posting privileges
>with the command:
>
>SET listname POST for [log in to unmask]
>
>Then you can ditch the header lines referring to posting
>approval, no?  You'd be the only subscriber with posting
>privileges, so approval would be unnecessary.

They would also need to put NOPOST into the default options
in the list header, to set new subscribers.

Aside from that, though, avoiding all of approval, confirmation,
or password verification opens the door to forgeries; the
"From:" header is easy to forge from many types of systems
and mail clients.

Cheers,
Stan