On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Walker, Marcia A wrote:

> Hi folks - Some of my co-workers are in need of a central email address set
> up only to receive incoming information (mostly financial documents from the
> federal government).  There will be no discussion among the members, and no
> outgoing information - 7 members all in the same office.
>
> For a reason that escapes me, it's been decided that a listserv with an
> alias is the way to go, rather than a single email address with multiple
> users.  I don't like this idea, but I'm not technically savvy enough to
> defend my opinion.
>
> What do you guys think?  Is this an ok idea, or are we leaving ourselves
> wide open to lord-knows-what?

What's wrong with the idea? What's what we do here in some situations.
It works out very nicely.