Maybe I've misunderstood the original question, but
you would only need to set the students to NOPOST if
they were not the only list subscribers, and the intent
was to allow all subscribers other than the students
to post to the list.

If the students are the only subscribers, why bother
with setting users to nopost, having editors, etc.?
If you want an announcement list to which only
one or two people (who are the list owners) will be
posting, why not just have:

Send=Owners

in the header of the announcement list?

If you want a limited group of folks to be able to post
to the list, create a separate, closed list, subscribe
them to it, and put this in the header of the announcment
list:

Send=(listname)

...where listname is the name of the list of
folks authorized to post.

Bronna Bodenstein
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Parker [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 9:20 AM
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Subject: Re: A good announcement list configuration?


On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 08:49:16 -0500, Valdis Kletnieks
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wrote:

>The problem here is that this means that a clued student *can* post to the
list
>by first setting themselves to 'POST'.

I really hate to disagree with Valdis but POST, like REVIEW, can only be
set/unset by the List Owner.  The subscriber cannot change this by themself.
The user could unsub/resub to attempt to clear it, but if you add the header
line

* Default-Options= NOPOST

then this option is automatically set for all new subscribers and even the
unsub/sub trick will not get around the setting.