At 1:32 PM -0400 5/18/00, Lynne Seamans wrote:
>Is there a way to require listowner approval
>for unsubscribing?

No.  Additionally there is no way to prevent subscribers from setting
themselves to NOMAIL, or from automatically discarding mailing list
mail using a filter.

>We know we can require
>owner approval for subscribing but We have
>lists for lab consultants we want to
>make sure they stay on.

You can set Notify= Yes in which case you will be notified if a
subscriber signs themselves off.

As far as the NOMAIL issue goes you could periodically issue a "Q
listname WITH NOMAIL FOR *@*" or "QUIET SET listname NOMAIL FOR *@*";
the former tells you if any subscribers have set themselves to nomail
and the latter will reset any such subscriptions to MAIL.

You may wish to post to LSTOWN-L to see how other listowners have
dealt with this issue.  You can subscribe to LSTOWN-L by sending a
message to [log in to unmask]  Actually
I think this has been discussed a number of times in the past so you
may wish to search the archives first; the archives are available at
http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/lstown-l.html

Thanks,
--
Jacob Haller, Technical Support
L-Soft international, Inc
http://www.lsoft.com/