>
>I assume the quiet sub command is their attempt to prevent notification 
>to the listowner in preparation to spam. It made me curious though - 
>are there any user initiated quiet commands?

No, there aren't.  Only Owners or Postmasters can issue QUIET commands.

>What are they trying to 
>hide with Job Echo=NO and Stat=NO  -- logging data?
>

Neither of these will affect logged data.  There's no way to prevent
actions from being recorded in the LISTSESRV system log.

For completeness' sake, here are some extracts from the LISTSERV 14.3
Developer's Guide:

Echo=YES|NO
   The default value (if the keyword is omitted) is YES and
   indicates that each command must be echoed to the job
   output before execution. The command is then prefixed
   with a "> ", and preceded by a blank line on the job output.

Stat=YES|NO
   (Starting with 1.8d) Determines whether or not server
   statistics ("Summary of resource utilization") for a given
   JOB are output in the command response to the invoker. The
   default is YES. A server-wide default (also starting with
   1.8d) may be set with the JOB_STAT_DEFAULT site configuration
   variable.


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