At 02:33 11/17/98 -0400, Bret Diamond said: |You raise an interesting issue. We are sub=by-owner simply because we |wanted some say in who could subscribe. While it is a lot of work |right now, and we are in fact rejecting very few, the open |subscription command seems problematic simply because they would be |signed up before we realized who they were, and then we would have to |delete them "against their will" as opposed to simply not letting them |join in the first place. If I'm missing something here, please let me know. Is the glass half-empty or -full? An alternative would be: * SUBSCRIPTION= OPEN,CONFIRM * DEFAULT-OPTIONS= REVIEW Then as the mood strikes: QUITE DEL listname [log in to unmask] QUIET SET listname NOREVIEW FOR *@*