On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 09:42:52 +0800, Archie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>But subscriber can not send e-mail to LISTSERV, until and unless he has a
>password.

Not true.  Otherwise nobody would ever be able to send anything to LISTSERV.

>And even thru web after assigning a password e-mail was sent to
>subscriber to confirm by e-mail with "OK".

Yes, this is part of the security procedure, but they do not need a password to
reply to this email, they only need to Reply and write OK.