At 14:57 10/12/2005 Wednesday, Wehner, Paul (wehnerpl) wrote:

>There is a disparate group of people that want to push out announcements
>via these lists. 
>The lists are set up with send=editor,hold,confirm
>The group of people take issue with the editor approval mechanism and
>want to send to the list without intervention.
> 
>I could make the list announce only and add these people as owners but
>this loses the safety of send=editors,hold,confirm. 
>Making it a moderated list doesn't seem to fulfill the request as it
>loads shares the approvals. 
>The group of people don't work together and insists on autonomy from the
>send=editor,hold,confirm. 
>
>It must be possible but I can't figure out how. Anyone have any ideas? 

Editors need not be any of

owner
moderator
subscriber

Editor need not be defined by list definition keyword operand i.e., it can be a SET option i.e.,

QUIET SET lisntname EDITOR FOR special_poster

/P