On Wed, 5 May 1999, Bill Gruber wrote:
> That would be nice if it were the case, but QUERY does NOT show all options,
> which is yet another reason (of many) why QUERY output is a nightmare to
> parse with a program or editor and is just plain confusing.  For example, if
> you are set to REVIEW, then QUERY will tell you this, but if you are set to
> NOREVIEW, there is no mention of the REVIEW status in the QUERY output.  In
> contrast, there's an entry for REPRO regardless of the setting, for example.

The REPRO is something the subscriber can set, so he needs to know which
way it actually is set.  The others he cannot set and if he is not set
to any of the restrictive options he already knows he should be able
to post directly to the list so why confuse him with irrelevant info,
and make those ridiculously long query outputs even longer?

Which brings me back to a plea I made years ago when the QUERY
output was changed from a brief, coded (easily understood code)
output of the settings to the current verbose form.  The plea
again: how about a QUERY option for listowners so we can get a
brief, coded output as before?

Douglas