Ben Parker wrote:
 
> Netscape's built-in mailer pgm can be used by anyone to post mail to a
> LISTSERV(tm) maillist.  It can also be used to send either user commands
> or list owner commands to the list, BUT if you do, LISTSERV detects that
> you are using a browser mailer and will make you do an 'OK' confirm of
> any and all command msgs, regardless if you are the owner and regardless
> if you include a PW=your_password.  Essentially, it forces the list to
 
Obviously, I am misunderstanding this completely.  It sounds as though you
(and others) are actually saying that, if I use the Netscape mailer included
as a feature of the Netscape for sending listowner listserv commands to the
listserv (TM) running my list, I will have to confirm those listowner listserv
commands, whether or not I include a password?
 
If that's so, it's news to me.  I've been using my ISP's Netscape-cum-mailer
since July some time, or is it August, and the ONE problem I have EVER had is
that the address of one prospective listmember I was trying to add proved too
long for my margins.  Other than that, I have noticed absolutely no difference
in the way my listserv has treated my Netscape mailer from the way it treated
my previous non-Netscape mailers.  I have not had to confirm any listowner
command, or supply a password where I had not previously been required to
supply it.
 
That other listservs (TM) have wanted confirmation of listserv commands for
lists NOT my own I have attributed simply to the increased vigilance of
listowners (i.e. they're setting the options to confirm), but you may well be
right on that part of what you say.
 
Confusedly (and undoubtedly ignorantly) yours,
 
Mario Rups, co-listowner, ARCANA, and generally quite satisfied Netscape
 mailer user
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