The approach of setting each clueless subscriber individually to NOEDITOR
seems a somewhat tedious way of ensuring that the listowner gets messages
posted by the clueless to be reviewed while the messages posted by
everyone else are distributed directly without listowner intervention.
With a list whose subscribership changes daily it could become quite
a burden on the listowner.

We get the same results with the following features:
DEFAULT-OPTIONS= review
SEND= editor
EDITOR= [log in to unmask],(listname)

The default option ensures that postings from all new subscribers come
to the listowner to be previewed.

The editor keyword sets up two categories of editors (i.e., those who are
authorized to post to the list without being reviewed): the listowner
whose address is specified AND all subscribers to the named list who are
not set to REVIEW. (The REVIEW option overrides the editor option.)
Postings from anyone who does not fall into one of those categories, i.e.,
non-subscribers, go to the named editor to be previewed.

New subscribers are automatically set to REVIEW and most of them (the
non-posters) stay that way forever.  The listowner has only to be
concerned with that minority that do post.  After any of them post a few
messages that show them to be good list citizens the listowner changes
their option to NOREVIEW.

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Judith Hopkins, Listowner of Autocat
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On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, rex wrote:

> Being able to set individual posters to REVIEW is a great feature.
> A serious limitation of REVIEW is that the message cannot be altered
> without appearing to come from the editor.
>
> The alternative of setting
> * Send= editor
>
> allows the editor to modify posts and still have them appear to come
> from the original author. However, it forces (AFAIK) _all_ messages to
> go to the editor for approval, regardless of REVIEW or NOREVIEW. This
> is wasteful of the editor's time as the majority of subscribers learn
> list netiquette and it should should be possible for them to be post
> without approval when they do.
>
> Perusing LISTSERV's documentation, it appears the desired effect
> could be obtained by
>
> set mylist editor for *@*
>
> and then
>
> set mylist noeditor for clueless1@whereever
> set mylist noeditor for clueless2@whereever
>      .
>      .
>      .
> with
>
> * Send= editor
>
> in the list header. With these settings, the clueful majority can
> post directly to the list, while the clueless minority's posts will
> go to the editor for editing/approval.
>
> I've tested the method I proposed ("* Send= Editor") when I initiated
> the thread. It seems to work the way I expected: The majority of
> posters are set to be editors (set mylist editor for *@*), and the
> problem posters are set to be non-editors one-by-one. When editors
> post their posts go directly to the list. When non-editors post
> I get a message to be approved, which I bounce to my list.
>
>
> -rex
> --
> "I don't believe there's any problem in this country, no matter how tough
> it is, that Americans, when they roll up their sleeves, can't completely
> ignore."  --  George Carlin
>
>