Yes, you and I have similar ideas, but somewhat different provocations for thinking so.  At least in your case it would seem to take fewer keystrokes/mouseclicks to OK the items instead of how you do it now - click reply, type OK, click send . . . . instead of drag/select/cut/paste  - maybe not fewer interactions, but certainly fewer error possibilities.

>>> [log in to unmask] 01/18/01 11:55AM >>>
> Do you mean that the owner's email address/account has been forged and/or
> compromised and that somehow the OK will remedy that?


I don't think so.  I think what is meant is that instead of sending the
command itself back to listserv to ADD someone, the owner can just send back
an OK.

I was just thinking this myself, but I'm not sure it would really help all
that much.  In my situation, I have a class-full of students all signing up
for the list (a class-oriented list) at the same time.  The list is set to
Subscribe By Owner because in the past we have had non-students subscribe to
list (don't ask me why they would want to).  This causes 20-30 messages to
come flooding into the owner (me) one at a time.

What I do is cut & past the command from all 30 or so messages from listserv
into a single message.  Not terribly efficient, but it does work.

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