As with everyone else I think that forcing people on a list is probably a
bad idea, but if you really wanted to do it, you could always set up a
nightly run script which would remove all subscribers and add them all again
(quietly) from a plain text file which you control.
This way everybody would have their settings reset every night as well.
This does have the potential to annoy so use it wisely ?
Duncan

-----Original Message-----
From: W Schipper [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 04 December 2000 20:24
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Keeping subscribers


I know that most of the time subscribers should have the freedom to
leave a list.  But I have a question about this.

Our faculty association wants to set up a mailing list that will have
all members of the association on the list, no-one else.  The purpose
of the list is to distribute notices about union activities.   We have
some members who are not likely to want to remain on the list, but just
as they automatically have a mailbox for snailmail where notices can get
sent, so we want them on this list.  If they want to delete everything
we send, fine;  this would be parallel to tossing all memos in the
garbage without reading them.

Ideally we would like to have a list setting something like
"Deletion=Owner";
but of course there is no such thing.  We would also like some sort of
notification if someone decides to set themselves to NOMAIL.  Are these
possible?  Normally I can think of dozens of good reasons NOT to have
settings like that.  But I've been asked to find out.

Guess who the list administrator will be?

:-(

Bill



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