>> What I want is a public address where anyone can submit an article; the
>> article is distributed to a panel of moderators; and if any one of the
>> several moderators approves it, it gets sent out to the list subscribers.
>> A person would not have to be a list subscriber to submit an article.
>>
>> Am I making this too complicated?  What I want is a list that functions
>> kind of like a refereed journal, but with submitted articles automatically
>> distributed to the editorial board rather than me having to do that by
>> hand.
 
Would it be simpler to use a shared account that all moderators could
access?  They would have to keep track of which postings submitted for
approval they had already seen.  Each would also know which postings had
already been been read by someone else.  This might or might not be
useful.  Postings could be saved as long as necessary for all moderators
to see them.  Caveat: The first to see a posting might also delete it,
which sounds like it might be what you are trying to avoid.
 
Bob
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