Ah, cool, thanks..... I'll look into these options..... and yes, I'm
inexperienced & runningthese lists is in addition to my day job!

Martin

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Lyon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 6:02 AM
Subject: Re: concealed members


> > Personally I have my lists set to CONCEAL by default; the reason being
is
> > that we don't want our competitors to be able to access potentially
> > valuable mailing lists.... the most active users are already known
anyway.
>
> This is exactly why LISTSERV has the option Review= Owners
> This keeps all prying eyes from seeing the subscriber list.
>
> Way back when dirt was fairly new and there were no spammers or address
> harvesters to worry about, many lists use to be set Review= Public
> As time progressed CONCEAL became a more important option to some
> subscribers. Today it is vital, ONLY if an inexperienced list owner used
> Review= Public or Private.
>
> > On the other hand it does make some management tasks a pain, such as
having
> > to use GET to review the list of members
>
> Huh?  If you use the below command, you get a list of everyone, concealed
or not.
>
> REVIEW listname NOH ALL
>
> The bottom line folks:   Unless you have a VERY good reason to have
> Review= Private or Public (which I can't think of one)  Review= Owner
> should be used. This completely eliminates the need for Conceal for
> subscribers.  If Conceal really bothers you, periodically set everyone to
> Noconceal. That is of course if you don't like or can't remember the  ALL
> option when you need to Review the list :-)