On Tue, 18 Jul 1995, Kevin J. Sinclair wrote:
> So what you are saying is that I can setup and manage a list, and I can
> setup and manage a filelist,
 
No, you can't, unless you're the postmaster/maintainer or NAD.  You can
do the day to day managing but you can't "set up" the list nor the filelist.
 
>                               and I can setup the actual files associated
> with my list, but as owner I cannot 'manage' AFD subscriptions in the
> sense of doing commands for them as I might for the list subscribers.
 
Well you can, if you really want to, and they don't have passwords.
Just forge mail for them.  Why not just tell them how to do it themselves?
 
>
> It seems inconsistent to be able to do it for the list itself but not
> the AFD subscriptions.  And you are saying the reason is 'historical' - the
> code for each is in different parts of listserv, so the AFD code has been
> just left as is?  No one has had the time to fix it, perhaps?  Or is it
> intentional for some technical reason?
 
No, it may seem inconsistent but it really isn't.  AFD/FUI has greater
security than your general list work because of the much greater potential
for distributing *really* nasty stuff, like viruses, enormous files that
will overload people's systems, etc.  Eric hasn't "fixed" it because it
works the way he designed it so it ain't "broken."
 
For anything else you'll have to ask Eric himself.
 
Douglas
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