I agree with this, from a slightly different angle.  Even if the addresses
that the owners have are valid as far as getting mail *delivered* to the
recipients, they do not always match up with the From: address actually
emitted by those recipients' clients.  This inevitably causes problems
down the road when they try to send or reply to the list, and we end up having
to resubscribe them or add their alter-ego address separately with NOMAIL.

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001 15:34:58 -0500 Kevin Parris said:
>I think it would be nice if the ADD command had an option to trigger the
> "confirmation" process rather than simply placing the user on the list and
> sending a notification.  For some lists being setup here, the owner wants to
> ADD everybody rather than sending out subscribe instructions, and sometimes
> their collections of email addresses have some inaccuracies - and as the LSMTP
> postmaster I wind up getting the delivery error reports.  Not a really great
> big huge deal, I suppose, since the owner gets a report too - but having only
> the confirmation item failing instead of all the list traffic (since some bad
> addresses don't 'fail' until the 5-day retry expires) would reduce the scope
>of
> my annoyance somewhat.