On Aug 28, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Bill Schipper wrote:

> Hi.
>
> On most of the lists I manage as list owner, and for which I need  
> to approve new subscriptions, I have a choice of either submitting  
> replying to the message, or clicking on a link that sends the  
> approval command to listserv.    But for one of my lists I don't  
> have that second option.
>
> Is this an option I can set myself?    Or does this need to be  
> activated by a site manager?

Any list owner can set that option. Request a copy of your list's  
header and change it so that the "subscription" keyword includes the  
word "confirm" as a parameter, as in

   subscription= open,confirm