On Thu, 01 Aug 1996 15:49:32 MDT, "Blaine E. Thompson" said:
> Is their any way to limit the approval of subscriptions by domain?  I
> have a tightly controlled list whereby I want .edu's to automatically be
> subscribed, but every other domain (including country domains), I want to
> see the address and approve of it beforehand.
 
Does this *truly* address what you want it to do?  Or is it merely a "close
enough to be mostly right" solution?
 
Note that there *are* .edu's outside the US (I think there's 5 or 10 in
Canada), and also note that it ends up treating universities outside the
US as second class citizens...
 
Also, I can hardly consider "subscribe any *.edu address" as "tightly
controlled".  Remember that there's a number of .edu sites that will
give out a userid to *anybody* (the most famous probably being the MIT AI Lab
systems, but I think they finally got out of THAT business).
 
It might be easier to come up with a Truly Good Solution if you explained
more about exactly what the *problem* was that you were trying to solve
by restricting subscriptions?
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                                Valdis Kletnieks
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