On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Kevin Parris wrote:
> How about making the subscription renewal available on an "OK" method
> instead of requiring the explicit 'confirm' command - have the "renewal
> is due" notification message include a cookie for this purpose?

I can give you three reasons: 1) if the subscriber gets it wrong, and
asks listowoner for help, listowner can simply tell subscriber send
CONFIRM listname  to [log in to unmask]  without worrying about
the number, which the subscriber has probably discarded; 2) subscriber
can do a CONFIRM listname at any time to reset the RENEWAL clock;
3) listowner can do the CONFIRM listname for the subscriber without
having the "number" which would be required with an OK approval.
  Douglas