At 04:10 10/12/2003 Sunday, Harry Dewey wrote:

>Version 1.8e allows us to reject posting from non-subscribers
>(SEND=Private).  It should be a simple matter to make a slight change in
>1.8e to enable us to make the &LISTNAME-request PRIVATE as well.  Then
>we would automatically receive all &LISTNAME-requests from subscribers,
>with NON-subscribers (including spammers) receiving only the
>&LISTNAME-request  autoreply, which I would revise  to ask that
>recipients contact an alternate address (a personal one, that we can all
>be certain mass spammers wouldn't bother with).  How about it, Eric & Co.?

I have NOT tried this -- caveat emptor ...

Alter your existing list:

OWNER= (owner-list),QUIET:,list_owner_address

where parens are required and

owner-list is a NEW listserv list:

SEND= (original_list)
subscribers: original list's owners
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some template alteration may be required.