Thanks Pete, could you explain what that would accomplish?  I realize
setting it up as open would preclude me from having to apporve each
request, but the default options I'm unclear on.  Also not sure what
the QUIET commands would do.  Sorry to be so naive, but when I looked
this stuff up in the online manual, it still remained unclear to me.

Thanks,

Bret D

Pete Weiss wrote:
>
> At 02:33 11/17/98 -0400, Bret Diamond said:
> |You raise an interesting issue.  We are sub=by-owner simply because we
> |wanted some say in who could subscribe.  While it is a lot of work
> |right now, and we are in fact rejecting very few, the open
> |subscription command seems problematic simply because they would be
> |signed up before we realized who they were, and then we would have to
> |delete them "against their will" as opposed to simply not letting them
> |join in the first place.  If I'm missing something here, please let me know.
>
> Is the glass half-empty or -full?  An alternative would be:
>
> * SUBSCRIPTION= OPEN,CONFIRM
> * DEFAULT-OPTIONS= REVIEW
>
> Then as the mood strikes:
>
> QUITE DEL listname [log in to unmask]
> QUIET SET listname NOREVIEW FOR *@*