>Besides the extra work subscription by owner has the downside that you have
>no control over people subscribing other people unknowingly. The confirm
>mechanism ensures that the address being subscribed is valid and the person
>that receives mail at it wants to be subscribed. If you require a
>questionnaire to be filled out, then the chance of this with subscription
>by owner is low. But there are quite a few owners that get the request for
>a subscription from the Listserv and just blindly add them to the list.
>
>Don.

This seems rather nonsensical to me.  There is little use in maintaining a
subscription by owner list if all you are going to do is blindly add
people to the list upon their supposed request.  Perhaps the intended
purpose of such owners is to have review by owner?

Glenn